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Subject:Re: quality control -suggestions please From:David C Mason <dcm -at- KPCO -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 11 Mar 1997 13:33:49 -0700
> I dont know the term GIS.
> Can you clue me in?
> Thx!
GIS stands for Geographical Information Systems. It is a way of
dispalying spatial data with attributes stored in database files. It
allows forcapturing, manipulating, storing, analyzing, and displaying
any form of geographically referenced information.
Hope this defines it well.
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