GIS

What Is Geographic Information System (GIS)

Everything you need to know about GIS, it's basic working, role in engineering and its applications.

Geographic Information System is nothing but a computer application that captures, stores and displays the various physical and manmade features on the Earth. Starting from mountains to buildings, GIS can map everything and store it in a database(DB). White House defines GIS as “the technology, policies, standards, human resources, and related activities necessary to acquire, process, distribute, use, maintain, and preserve spatial data.”

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GIS is an integrated system, which utilizes more than one feature at a time. Following is an image for understanding how GIS works.

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How does it work?

GIS being a Database System can store an enormous amount of data. This includes longitude, latitude, zip code, address for a given location. In addition to those, it can…