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I mostly work on desktop programming, and I've dabbled in web stuff... And I don't know what GIS is. I see it talked about _a lot_ but I don't understand how t
by ReactiveJelly 6y ago
I mostly work on desktop programming, and I've dabbled in web stuff...
And I don't know what GIS is. I see it talked about _a lot_ but I don't understand how there can be so much money and interest in geography.
I understand web stuff being huge, because I'm online almost all day. But what _is_ GIS? Is it something businesses do and consumers don't see?
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- thinkingemote 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIS GIS is everything location. From modelling pandemics to rainforest loss, to logistics, to Tinder and Pokemon Go.
- Crespyl 6y agoUber, Lyft, etc are other useful examples. I think some of the sort-of-obscurity/confusion comes from the fact that, as the OP tweet gets at, you don't really see a very visible "GIS Industry"/products most of the time, you just see tools that happen to have maps embedded in them, and those often require a lot of backend GIS work to power them. Finding a rideshare and planning your next oil well don't, at first, seem to have a lot in common, but on the backend there may be a surprising amount of overlap.
- PLenz 6y agoEverything has to happen somewhere, even online things, and GIS is they way to analyze it.
- rurban 6y agoGIS is when you rotate your x with y coordinates for your CAD drawings or maps. And less details, much less objects, more grander scale. Only points, polygons, polylines and markers.