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GIS Software
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ALSO CALLED: GPS Software, Geographic Information Systems Software, Mapping Software, Spatial Information Management Software, Digital Mapping Software, and Geospatial Information Management Software
DEFINITION: A GIS (geographic information system) enables you to envision the geographic aspects of a body of data. Basically, it lets you query or analyze a database and receive the results in the form of some kind of map. Since many kinds of data have important geographic aspects, a GIS can have
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GIS SOFTWARE DEFINITION (continued):
many uses: weather forecasting, sales analysis, population forecasting, and land use planning, to name a few. In a GIS, geographic information is described explicitly in terms of geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude or some national grid coordinates) or implicitly in terms of a street address, postal code, or forest stand identifier. A geographic information system contains the ability to translate implicit geographic data (such as a street address) into an explicit map location.
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