Georeferencing: Assigning map coordinates and spatial location
To georeference means to associate something with locations in physical space. The
term is commonly used in GIS field to describe the process of associating a physical map or
raster image of a map with spatial locations.
Georeferencing may be applied to any kind of object or structure that can be related to a
geographical location, such as points of places, line of roads, polygon of buildings, etc