Rubber sheeting gis. Before aerial photography arrived, most maps were highly inaccurate by modern standards. When you rubbersheet features, consider the following: Rubbersheeting is a useful technique in HGIS, where it is used to digitize and add old maps as feature layers in a modern GIS. • Tool use instructions will also appear in the footer of the Think GIS window in the Instructional Bar. The closer the selected features are to displacement links, the farther they will move. The PLH is a mathematical transformation that preserves topology and is linear on subsets of the map. ArcGIS geoprocessing tool that modifies input features by spatially adjusting them through rubbersheeting, using the specified rubbersheet links, so they are better aligned with the intended target features. Rubber-sheeting, which in our case is known technically as Piecewise Linear Homeomorphism (PLH), is used for transforming the coordinates of digitized map files. It involves spatially transforming a digital map or image to align with a more accurate reference map or coordinate system. Rubbersheeting is generally used to make small geometric adjustments to feature data and align it with other features that are more spatially accurate. RUBBERSHEETING: Rubbersheeting, also known as geometric correction or image registration, is a process in cartography and remote sensing. • To rubber sheet a raster image use the move tool to select a single image and then select the rubber sheet option. Rubber sheeting preserves the interconnectivity between points and objects through stretching, shrinking, or reorienting their interconnecting lines (in a feature dataset), or their neighboring pixels (in an image). . vaztnlhiiekzsjowrzxxrptylyxqkkxatbkltowqkrtqzsqpb