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[–] geomela@lemmy.world 65 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 78 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Geographic Information Systems aka digital mapping aka fancy databases

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 points 14 hours 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

[–] john_t@piefed.ee 1 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Kinda like SQL but in polar coordinates