GIS Exam: Spatial Data
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1. Roger Tomlinson Father of GIS
2. Canada, 1967 where/when: concept of using GIS for land in-
ventory
3. measure, represent, operate, transform 4 GIS functions
4. spatial turn term for other fields paying closer attention to
spatial analysis
5. domain knowledge critical to developing good spatial questions
6. hardware, software, input, storage, out- 7 components of GIS
put (printing), data, people
7. digitizers, scanner, internet 3 examples of data input hardware
8. communicate information about loca- 3 reasons to map
tion, explore spatial relationships, solve
problems
9. spatial data unique coordinates or other identifiers that allow
location in geographic space
10. geocoding assigning location to an object
11. orthophotography aerial photography
12. Deg + Min/60 + Sec/3600 converting DD
13. flip y,x and add +/- (2) other things when converting degrees, min-
utes, seconds to DD
14. discrete DATA TYPE: objects in real world with specific lo-
cations or boundaries
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Study online at https://quizlet.com/_1kdk0c
1. Roger Tomlinson Father of GIS
2. Canada, 1967 where/when: concept of using GIS for land in-
ventory
3. measure, represent, operate, transform 4 GIS functions
4. spatial turn term for other fields paying closer attention to
spatial analysis
5. domain knowledge critical to developing good spatial questions
6. hardware, software, input, storage, out- 7 components of GIS
put (printing), data, people
7. digitizers, scanner, internet 3 examples of data input hardware
8. communicate information about loca- 3 reasons to map
tion, explore spatial relationships, solve
problems
9. spatial data unique coordinates or other identifiers that allow
location in geographic space
10. geocoding assigning location to an object
11. orthophotography aerial photography
12. Deg + Min/60 + Sec/3600 converting DD
13. flip y,x and add +/- (2) other things when converting degrees, min-
utes, seconds to DD
14. discrete DATA TYPE: objects in real world with specific lo-
cations or boundaries
1/3
