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  <dc:contributor>Todd T. Fitzgibbon</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Carl M. Wentworth</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1991</dc:date>
  <dc:description>ALACARTE offers a convenient way to compile geologic maps in the computer as spatial databases that can be used to prepare both cartographic images and analytic derivatives.
It is a menu-controlled shell, organized in geologic terms, that provides on-screen control of the program ARC/INFO, a commercial geographic information system (GIS).
Input can be from imported scans, digitizer tracing, or on-screen tracing or mapping with a mouse-controlled cursor over a digital topographic base, and interactive editing can be done on-screen using a broad suite of edit functions.
Compilations begun in other digital systems can be imported for completion as digital databases in ARC/INFO. The digital files that represent a geologic map can be used to prepare near-publication-quality color plots of the maps with full symbology or to create high-quality printing negatives. These files also constitute a digital database that can be used for computer-based query and analysis as well as for digital distribution of the map and associated data.</dc:description>
  <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>10.3133/ofr91587C</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey,</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>ALACARTE user manual</dc:title>
  <dc:type>reports</dc:type>
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