2006-11-29 02:58:37 · 2 answers · asked by Jeremy S 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
My goodness, what a question. GIS is the management, analysis, and dissemination of geospatial data.
Who uses or creates geographic information systems? Just about every industry, including business, defense, education, engineering, government, health care, cartography, natural resources, transportation, and utilities.
ESRI, the producer of ArcGIS, has a fantastic list of examples broken down by industry on their website - http://www.esri.com/industries.html You can also check out the best answer here - http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060725050700AA02wNZ
To see an example of who uses GIS on an academic campus, see - http://mapzlibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/12/so-who-uses-spatial-technologies.html
Remember too that Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Ask.com all devlelop online GIS mapping interfaces providing basemaps, aerial/satellite imagery, driving directions, referenced business listings, and more. And too, that all of the millions of users of these online maps are using GIS. It's everywhere...
2006-11-30 05:57:55 · answer #1 · answered by mapz 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
GIS = Geographic Information System.
Used with aerial photography. It can be used to mark telephone poles, streets, street centerliens, trees that are protected, etc. This is used to locate buildings, streets, etc. - Map Quest, Yahoo! Maps, etc.
Several different uses.
2006-11-29 11:23:59 · answer #2 · answered by whadda-dingo-gal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋