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<p></p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 12:46, 3 November 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 2:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 2:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|Abbreviation=GIS</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|Abbreviation=GIS</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|Definition=1. A geographic information system (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present spatial or geographic data. GIS applications are tools that allow users to create interactive queries (user-created searches), analyze spatial information, edit data in maps, and present the results of all these operations. Since many kinds of data have important geographic aspects, a GIS can have many uses: weather forecasting, sales analysis, or population forecasting.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|Definition=1. A geographic information system (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present spatial or geographic data. GIS applications are tools that allow users to create interactive queries (user-created searches), analyze spatial information, edit data in maps, and present the results of all these operations. Since many kinds of data have important geographic aspects, a GIS can have many uses: weather forecasting, sales analysis, or population forecasting.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>2. A GIS 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. &#160;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>2. A GIS 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<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|Sources=http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/definition/GIS (1.);&#160; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_system (2.)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">3. QGIS is a free and open source Geographic Information System, with which you can create, edit, visualize, analyse and publish geospatial information. QGIS is licensed under the GNU General Public License. It supports numerous vector, raster, and database formats and functionalities. </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">4. QGIS (previously known as Quantum GIS) is a cross-platform free and open-source desktop geographic information system (GIS) application that supports viewing, editing, and analysis of geospatial data</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|Sources=http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/definition/GIS (1.);&#160; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_system (2<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.); http://qgis.org/en/site/ (3.); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QGIS (4</ins>.)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>}}</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Author: Svenja Gutt</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Author: Svenja Gutt</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p>Created page with &quot;{{GlossaryTermTemp |Abbreviation=GIS |Definition=1. A geographic information system (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present spat...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{GlossaryTermTemp<br /> |Abbreviation=GIS<br /> |Definition=1. A geographic information system (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present spatial or geographic data. GIS applications are tools that allow users to create interactive queries (user-created searches), analyze spatial information, edit data in maps, and present the results of all these operations. Since many kinds of data have important geographic aspects, a GIS can have many uses: weather forecasting, sales analysis, or population forecasting.<br /> 2. A GIS 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. <br /> |Sources=http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/definition/GIS (1.); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_system (2.)<br /> }}<br /> Author: Svenja Gutt</div>

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