Today’s wide spread technology
in various domains are actually the result of many constant evolutionary
processes which began from a concrete terminology. Geographic Information
System (GIS) is one such technology that was innovated to better understand the
spatial and non-spatial aspect of our world. As we all know, geography is the
science that studies the land, the inhabitants, the features, and the phenomena
of the earth. The scientists, spatial explorers, researchers and many others
who were the part of revealing inventions and discoveries constantly maintained
the records of their findings either as a hard or soft copy. The need for advancement
and integration of technology in this field became more pervasive as the analysis
of non-spatial attributes and data for finding solutions to spatial and non-spatial
queries became impossible with the non-technical data.
GIS is a conglomerate
technology that connects data (spatial and non-spatial), software and hardware
which together functions to produce thematic display of various phenomenon of
this world either as 3D or 2D that contains spatially referenced solutions for
the queries that are being raised by the current worldly needs. The data being
used as input for this system is highly evaluated that the input should be spatially
referenced data that has high precision. Based on the queries given, the system
works on these input data and finally comes out with the desired results
intended by the end user.
Areas where GIS can be
implemented includes natural resources, marketing and retailing, facilities
management, health, utilities, return on
investment, transport/vehicle routing and many more.
GIS technology is all about
integration with the vast domains and with its advancement, now it is possible
to find solutions that describes spatially ‘what, where and when’.
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