The document is a presentation titled "Scaling GIS in 3 Acts - Lightning Edition" presented by Nick Dimiduk on May 22, 2012. It discusses scaling geographic information systems (GIS) in three acts: Act I defines what GIS is and that it involves data on maps; Act II discusses what can be done with GIS such as geospatial queries and non-Euclidean geometry; Act III covers implementing GIS on HBase including spatial partitioning and indices.