Geographic Information Systems Day 2024 is on Tuesday, November 19, 2024: Geographic Information Systems? Anyone?
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 is Geographic Information Systems Day 2024. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day Geographic Information Systems
I do all the demo CDs for ESRI. Does that count? Mind you, I don't work with GIS that ofter, but I interact with those who do--every day! I am located at their main office in SoCal.
I'll take Geographic Information System (GIS) class this semester. Is it a hard class?
If you think aboat Geographic Information traditionally you think about contour lines showing alititude and depth of water.
Modern day Geographic Information Systems attach a lot more information about things such as vegetation,population density, demographics, traffic etc. That way you can ask questions like (how many people are effected by a noise contour around an airport? Or, How many people live within a 6 minute drive of a location where I want to put a shopping center?
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All kinds of civic planning uses GIS systems for the placement of schools, serivces, fire stations, etc. Commercially, you want to know where to put your transportation hubs, office buildings.
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You may want to target a certain income or racial demographic, so you want to know what the percentage of people within a certain area have an income.
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Or you may want to know something about vegetation, and animal habitats, or wetlands if you are considering a large development.
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Take a few minutes and read through a GIS website (I put a link to San Diego's GIS website in the source).
Give some information of any contry about its resources, government, political and legal system and physical?
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- In the Government category, the "Capital" entry has been greatly expanded and now contains up to four subfields, including significant new information having to do with time. The subfields consist of the name of the capital itself, its geographic coordinates, the time difference at the capital from coordinated universal time (UTC), and, if applicable, information on daylight saving time (DST). Where appropriate, a special note has been added to highlight those countries that have multiple time zones.
- The Transnational issues category now has a “Trafficking in persons” entry. Human trafficking connotes modern-day slavery and this important new field will include information on the most egregious countries (Tier 2 Watch List and Tier 3) as listed in the US State Department's annual report.
- A new Appendix G lists Weights and Measures . The appendix includes information on mathematical notation and metric interrelationships, as well as over 400 examples of standard conversion factors.
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