Coverage

Coverage is a vector - data format . The company ESRI originally developed this format in 1981 for their GIS program ArcInfo .

The model on which the coverage is based contains various geometry types (feature classes) within a folder structure (feature dataset). The geometry types are mutually dependent.

Individual evidence

1. ^ GI Geoinformatik GmbH (ed.) (2010): ArcGIS 10, p. 71.