If geography is a way to bridge the natural and social sciences, a GIS is basically a tool for combining unlike, often large scale datasets that are hard to compare otherwise. A GIS allows people to see where things occur in time and space and analyse those relationships.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 19 hours ago
Geographic Information Systems aka digital mapping
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
Wut….?
fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 17 hours ago
were gis’ers!
snoons@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
Now gith…
PlexSheep@infosec.pub 3 hours ago
Ik so confused
fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 hours ago
If geography is a way to bridge the natural and social sciences, a GIS is basically a tool for combining unlike, often large scale datasets that are hard to compare otherwise. A GIS allows people to see where things occur in time and space and analyse those relationships.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Geographic_information_science
john_t@piefed.ee 6 hours ago
I, too, gis’ed in my pants at work.