2. Rowan University Think about all the activity occurring though out a landscape. How can we map, manage and analyze all that is going on? GIS!
3. US Census Data in Excel Think about keeping information about phenomenon on a landscape. How could you do it?
4. US Census Data in GIS GIS organizes that data with a map. But GIS is much more….
5. Data Types Aspatial data—data not tied to a location on the earth ’s surface Spatial data —data associated with a location on earth Much of the information we deal with daily has some spatial component.
23. Coding Vector GIS Reality Vector Mode Model of Reality Polygon I Polygon II Polygon III Polygon V Polygon IV node A node B node C node E node F node G node D