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[-] geomela@lemmy.world 82 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

What's gis? Cos apparently I'm one.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 98 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Geographic Information Systems aka digital mapping aka fancy databases

[-] john_t@piefed.ee 5 points 1 week ago

I, too, gis'ed in my pants at work.

[-] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 points 1 week ago

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

[-] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 26 points 2 weeks ago

Kinda like SQL but in polar coordinates

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 points 1 week ago
[-] athatet@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Just here to point out that Stephen Crowder is a shithead.

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