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2. Geographic information system - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_Information_System

   Basic GIS concept. A geographic information system (GIS) consists of integrated computer hardware and software that store, manage, analyze, edit, output, and visualize geographic data. [1] [2] Much of this often happens within a spatial database; however, this is not essential to meet the definition of a GIS. [1]

3. Geographic data and information - Wikipedia

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   [1] [2] It is also called geospatial data and information, [citation needed] georeferenced data and information, [citation needed] as well as geodata and geoinformation. [ citation needed ] Location information (known by the many names mentioned here) is stored in a geographic information system (GIS).

4. Spatial analysis - Wikipedia

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   Geospatial and hydrospatial analysis, or just spatial analysis, [70] is an approach to applying statistical analysis and other analytic techniques to data which has a ...

5. Geospatial intelligence - Wikipedia

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   Geospatial intelligence analysis has been light-heartedly defined as "seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought" or as "anticipating a target's mental map." [ 11 ] However, these perspectives affirm that creating geospatial knowledge is an effortful cognitive process the analyst undertakes; it is an intellectual ...

6. Web mapping - Wikipedia

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   Web mapping or an online mapping is the process of using, creating, and distributing maps on the World Wide Web (the Web), usually through the use of Web geographic information systems (Web GIS). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] A web map or an online map is both served and consumed, thus, web mapping is more than just web cartography , it is a service where ...

7. Web GIS - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_GIS

   Web GIS has numerous functions, which can be divided into categories of Geospatial web services, including web feature services, web processing services, and web mapping services. [3] Geospatial web services are distinct software packages available on the World Wide Web that can be employed to perform a function with spatial data.

8. Web Map Service - Wikipedia

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   A Web Map Service (WMS) is a standard protocol developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium in 1999 for serving georeferenced map images over the Internet. [1] These images are typically produced by a map server from data provided by a GIS database.

9. Location intelligence - Wikipedia

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   The term "location intelligence" is often used to describe the people, data and technology employed to geographically "map" information. These mapping applications like Polaris Intelligence can transform large amounts of data linked to location (e.g. POIs, demographics, geofences) into color-coded visual representations (heat maps and thematic maps of variables of interest) that make it easy ...