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What is GIS?

Posted by enviro On June - 29 - 2008

A GIS or Geographical Information System is a computer-based system for capturing, storing, analyzing, managing and presenting data that is spatially referenced. Popular GIS software includes Esri and Mapinfo applications. An example of a GIS in use is a car navigation system. The spatial data includes the roads and cadastre, represented in the form [...]