erinevatel andmekihtidel olevate kongruentssete ruumiobjektide asendamine ühe ruumiobjektiga
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Conflation thus attempts to replace two or more versions of the same information with a single version that reflects the pooling, or weighted averaging, of the sources.
The process of conflation is a difficult task to automate, since it involves matching equivalent features, or parts of features, which due to inherent survey and digitizing errors may be in slightly different positions.
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Mõned käsitlused mõistavad terminit väga laialt: "Such a process is sometimes called rubber sheeting, in comparison to streching a map as if it were made of rubber, but the more technical term is conflation" (DeMers, 197:173).
