🗺 With over 1000 uses and applications for GIS, we may not even realize how many ways Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is being utilized in our everyday lives. 🗺

 

📍Understanding data can be difficult, but GIS gives us the ability to visually communicate geospatial information.

 

📍GIS allows users to create maps that display geographic data, managing large sets of data, and analyzing data to find patterns, eliminating the strait of depicting data.

 

🧭 Geographic Information Systems gives users a better understanding to the interpretation of relationships to location, patterns, and trends. 🧭

 

To help better understand GIS uses, consider the three main components: 

 

1️⃣ Data – with two main types, raster and vector, data is stored as thermic layers.

 

2️⃣ Hardware – from mobile phone, powerful servers, to personal GIS workstation, these types of hardware are what keep GIS software running.

 

3️⃣ Software – specializing spatial analysis by using math to map data. Leaders in GIS software include: ArcGIS and QGIS.

 

📡 What types of GIS applications have made viewing and analyzing data sets easier for your organization’s purposes and how? 📡

 

Learn more about “What is GIS” here: https://gisgeography.com/what-gis-geographic-information-systems/