ABSTRACT
For many users of digital mapping and GIS, systems remain difficult to use, not least because the underlying vector or raster map bases used by GIS systems are difficult for non-specialists to understand, and they require a great deal of interpretation. There is also the added complication that base mapping, by its very nature, will be out of date and is often subject to generalisation by the cartographer. Help is on the horizon in the form of digital orthophotographs, digital photographs that provide true colour imagery of the landscape.
