The Digital Atlas of the Kazakhstan is a comprehensive 1:2,000,000 scale vectorised base map of the Kazakhstan. It consists of geographic attribute and textual data that can be accessed, queried, manipulated displayed, and modified with the help of Arc/Info Software.
Each coverage gets its attribute value according to previously constructed database design. Design was made in such a manner that could be acceptable to a wide range of users.
Coverage is the basic form of vector data storage in ARC/INFO software. Data are stored primarily as points, lines or polygons, and secondary as text, tics and boundary data. All vector data have corresponding tables with system and user-defined attributes.
The whole dataset is transformed into cartographic projections on World Geographic System 1984 Projection with following parameters:
Projection WGS 84
The base coverage has been adopted from Digital Chart of The World (DCW) data published by ESRI.