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geomela@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Geographic Information Systems aka digital mapping

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  • MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wut….?

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    • fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      were gis’ers!

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      • snoons@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Now gith…

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  • john_t@piefed.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I, too, gis’ed in my pants at work.

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  • PlexSheep@infosec.pub ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ik so confused

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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• nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Kinda like SQL but in polar coordinates

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

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    • athatet@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just here to point out that Stephen Crowder is a shithead.

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