Compilation of digital geologic maps and associated databases with ALACARTE, an easily used menu interface cast in geologic terms that controls ARC/INFO, a commercial geographic information system
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.
The original products were:
Open-File Report 91-587A
ALACARTE User Interface - AML Code and Demonstration Maps, Version 1.0
Todd T. Fitzgibbon and Carl M. Wentworth
This component is now represented by the Core Alacarte files (below).
Open-File Report 91-587B
ALACARTE Installation and System Manual, Version 1.0
Todd T. Fitzgibbon
Open-File Report 91-587C
ALACARTE User Manual, Version 1.0
Carl M. Wentworth
Both manuals are contained in the Manuals files (below).
ALACARTE 3.1 for ARC/INFO 7.x:
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