Geographic Information Systems (GIS) allow users to visualize, analyze, and synthesize geographic data. GIS data comes in three primary forms: points (e.g. buildings, trees), lines (e.g. roads, shorelines), and polygons (e.g. lakes, fields). GIS is a digital tool that uses geographic data and layers to explore relationships and patterns spatially.
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Intro gis
1. A Brief Introduction to GIS:
Geographic Information Systems
Tuesday, December 3, 13
2. The world is not a given to be
captured and frozen, as is, on
the map: a world is but one
possible world to be depicted,
as we choose to imagine it, on
a map.
Asta Ciowy
‘The Roots of Walter Christaller’
Tuesday, December 3, 13