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Introducing geographic information systems with ArcGIS : a workbook approach to learning GIS / Michael Kennedy, University of Kentucky

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Basic Concepts of GIS -- ch. 1 Some Concepts That Underpin GIS -- You Ask: "What Is GIS About?" -- And So You Ask Again: "What Is GIS About?" -- Exercise 1-1 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Plan To Replace Geographic Coordinates on Earth With Unique Strings of Three Words

The traditional geographic coordinate system identifies locations on the globe with a pair of long numbers. what3words proposes using language instead. Image via Wikimedia Commons/djexplo It's the ...