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.
Geographic Information Systems aka digital mapping aka fancy databases
Wut….?
were gis’ers!
Now gith…
I, too, gis’ed in my pants at work.
Im so confused
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_science