Geographical feature

Geographic object referred to in the geography a previously on earth or today actually existing location, which is clearly referenced by spatial data, so a topographical object on the earth's surface.

Demarcation

In contrast to general definitions or descriptions ( phenomenology ) of formations of geography, these are certain individual, solely by their position (geographical coordinates) detectable locations. Collective terms such as mountain, island or bay describe a variety of similar objects. Individual structures of these families of objects such as the mountain Zugspitze, the island of Corsica or the Bay of Gdańsk are identified by their designation and can be easily detected through their unique cartographic earthly coordinates and thus entered in maps and atlases worldwide.

More man-made movable objects, such as ships or aircraft that crashed in the water or on land, there are no geographical objects; the exact georeferenzierbare area of the accident does.

In contrast to the geographic object that is a phenomenon in reality, is the elementary unit meant by geoobject in Geoinformatics in a geographic information system, which is the image of a concrete unit on the earth, so the image of a geographic object.

Swell

• German Glossary of Toponymic Terminology. Produced by the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names ( StAGN ), Frankfurt am Main 2002, p 20 sv feature, geographical / object, geographical and S. v. 21 p feature, topographic / object topographical. (PDF file, 861 kB)
• Geoinformation Service of the University of Rostock. Lexicon s, v. Geography object.
• Geoinformation Service of the University of Rostock. Lexicon s, v. geoobject.