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  • 1Geographic information systems in China — Geographic information systems (GIS) are becoming an increasingly important component of business, healthcare, security, government, trade, media, transportation and tourism industries and operations in China and GIS software are playing an… …

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  • 2Geographic Information Retrieval — (GIR) or Geographical Information Retrieval is the augmentation of Information Retrieval with geographic metadata.Information Retrieval generally views documents as a collection or bag of words. In contrast Geographic Information Retrieval… …

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  • 3Geographic profiling — is a criminal investigative methodology that analyzes the locations of a connected series of crimes to determine the most probable area of offender residence. Typically used in cases of serial murder or rape (but also arson, bombing, robbery, and …

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  • 4Geographic Names Information System — oder GNIS ist eine Datenbank, die Namen und Informationen über den Namen und die Lage von nahezu zwei Millionen geographischen Objekten in den Vereinigten Staaten und den abhängigen Territorien enthält. GNIS wurde vom United States Geological… …

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  • 5Geographic Information System — ➔ GIS * * * Geographic Information System UK US noun [C or U] IT ► GIS(Cf. ↑GIS) …

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  • 6Geographic Data Files — or GDF is an interchange file format for geographic files. In contrast with generic GIS formats, GDF provides detailed rules for data capture and an extensive catalog of standard features, attributes and relationships.GDF is primarily used for… …

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  • 7Geographic feature — Geographic features, or geographical formations, are components of a planet that can be referred to as locations, sites, areas, or regions (and therefore may show up on maps). There are natural geographic features, abstract geographic features,… …

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  • 8Geographic information science — (GISc or GISci) is the academic theory behind the development, use, and application of geographic information systems (GIS). It is concerned with GIS hardware, software, and geospatial data. GIS, on the other hand, addresses problems and issues… …

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  • 9Geographic data — is about much more than electronic pictures of maps. The geographic data that describes our world allows for city planning, flood prediction and relief, emergency service routing, environmental assessments, wind pattern monitoring and many other… …

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  • 10Geographic information system — GIS redirects here. For other uses, see GIS (disambiguation). A geographic information system, geographical information science, or geospatial information studies is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present… …

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