1. Raster Map เป็นDigital Mapที่เกิดจากจุด(pixels)เล็กๆ มารวมกัน Mapชนิดนี้ต้องการหน่วยความจำมาก
มี formatย่่อยๆ ได้แก่
- ADRG NIMA ARC Digitized Raster Graphics
- BMP .bmp Windows bitmap
- BMF .dib
- CADRG NIMA Compressed ARC Digitized Raster Graphics
- CIB NIMA Controlled Image Base
- DOQ .doq, .coq, .jpg Digital orthophoto quadrangle
- DRG .tif USGS Digital Raster graphics (scanned maps)
- ECW .ecw ERMapper Wavelet compressed.
- ENVI IMG .img
- ERDAS GIS .gis, .lan
- ERDAS IMG .img
- ERS .ers ERMapper
- GIF .gif
- GRASS (US Army Corps of Engineers)
- JPEG .jpg, .jpeg
- LAS/LBL .lbl
- LULC CTG Land use land coverage
- NITF .ntf NIMA image format (different than UK Ordance Survey .ntf)
- PCX .pcx
- PIX .pix PCIDISK
- PNG .png Portable Network Graphics
- PPM .ppm
- RAW .raw
- IDRISI IMG .img
- IDRISI32 RST .rst
- SGI .sgi Silicon Graphics
- SUN .sun Sun Microsystems
- TGA .tga Targa
- TIF .tif
- TIFF .tif (geocoded) GeoTIFF
- WMF .wmf Windows Meta File
ฟอร์แมทของภาพเหล่านี้ได้แก่
- EPS .eps Postscript
- WMF .wmf Windows Meta File
- DRW .drw Micrografx Designer Drawing
- BNA .bna Atlas
- DGN .dgn Intergraph
- DLG .dlg, .opt USGS
- DXF .dxf AutoCAD
- EOO .e00 ESRI
- Geomedia Access / GXF
- LULC GIRAS
- MFD .mfd Manifold 4.50
- MIF .mif MapInfo mid/mif
- NTAD .are, .lnk, .nod, .pnt BTS National Transportation Atlas Database
- NTF .ntf UK Ordnance Survey
- STDSÂ US government standard
- SHP .shp ESRI ArcView, including 3D and measured Shapefiles
- TAB .tab MapInfo Tab
- TAIF .nde, .edg, .fac Tele Atlas Interchange Format
- TIGER/Line US Bureau of the Census TIGER (TL '95, '97, '98, '99, '00)
- VCT .vct IDRISI
- VMAPÂ NIMA Vector Product Format, both VMAP0 and VMAP1
