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  2. Little Elm, Texas - Wikipedia

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    While Little Elm is often referred to as a "bedroom community", five companies/entities in the city employ over 100 people, per the Little Elm EDC [24] – Little Elm ISD (853), The Town of Little Elm (311), Kroger (191), Lowe's Home Center (178), and Retractable Technologies (146). The 2019 Retail Trade population was 203,560.

  3. Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing

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    ZIP codes are not truly areas, but rather a group of deliverable addresses. [2] Some or all of an existing ZIP code's addresses may be reassigned to a new ZIP if there is sufficient growth within a given postal ZIP Code. As many as 3% of ZIP codes undergo change each quarter. Thus, the 5-digit ZCTAs are of limited value in areas of growth or ...

  4. Geographic information retrieval - Wikipedia

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    Geographic information retrieval (GIR) or geographical information retrieval systems are search tools for searching the Web, enterprise documents, and mobile local search that combine traditional text-based queries with location querying, such as a map or placenames.

  5. This Is What Your ZIP Code Actually Means - AOL

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    Learn the history and meaning of usps postal codes, why it's called a ZIP code, whether a postal code is a ZIP code, and what ZIP code numbers stand for.

  6. Geographic information system - Wikipedia

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    GIS data acquisition includes several methods for gathering spatial data into a GIS database, which can be grouped into three categories: primary data capture, the direct measurement phenomena in the field (e.g., remote sensing, the global positioning system); secondary data capture, the extraction of information from existing sources that are ...

  7. Mapcode - Wikipedia

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    Shorter codes are reserved for densely populated areas. The last idea, especially, yields very good results. For example, although every location within the Netherlands can be identified by a 6-letter mapcode, half of the Dutch population can be found in about 40 cities and densely populated areas that together comprise less than 6,000 square ...

  8. Glossary of geography terms (A–M) - Wikipedia

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    Also amphidrome and tidal node. A geographical location where there is little or no tide, i.e. where the tidal amplitude is zero or nearly zero because the height of sea level does not change appreciably over time (meaning there is no high tide or low tide), and around which a tidal crest circulates once per tidal period (approximately every 12 hours). Tidal amplitude increases, though not ...

  9. Traditional knowledge GIS - Wikipedia

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    GIS technologies are powerful in their ability to accommodate multimedia and multidimensional data sets, which allows for the recording and playing of oral histories and representations of abstract ecological knowledge. [5] Historical mapping documents and analyzes events that are meaningful to a particular tradition or locale.