Famous Landmarks
It served as the entrance gateway to the 1889 World's Fair.
What is THE EIFFEL TOWER?
Jack and Laura Dangermond founded the Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (Esri). in this year.
What is 1969
The line that directions are related to and from which angles are measured
What is AXIS
The world's first true operational GIS was developed in this Country by the Department of Forestry and Rural Development.
What is Canada?
Points, lines, and polygons are examples of this type of spatial data.
This limestone monument near Giza Egypt has often been buried up to its neck in sand.
What is THE SPHINX?
This English geographer worked to initiate, plan, and develop the Canada Geographic Information System and this resulted in the first computerized GIS in the world in 1963.
Who is Dr. Roger Tomlinson.
A command that extracts features from one feature class that reside entirely within a boundary defined by features in another feature class.
What is CLIP
Data about data.
What is metadata.
What are the two branches of geography?
What is Physical and Human?
Some believe this megalithic monument near Salisbury England was an astronomical observatory.
What is STONEHENGE?
While at Northwestern University, Howard Fisher created one of the first computer mapping software programs.
What is SYMAP (Synteny Mapping and Analysis Program)
A means of covering or hiding features on a map to enhance cartographic representation.
What is MASK
Geolocation mapping services in international relief efforts were first used extensively and successfully in this country.
What is Haiti?
Measuring the size and shape of the earth.
What is Geodesy?
The famous Oracle of Delphi was located on the lower slope of this sacred Greek mountain.
What is MOUNT PARNASSUS?
In 1854, John Snow adopted what technique/principle to map cholera deaths in London.
What is Spatial Analysis (Heat Map)
A junction feature that pulls flow toward itself through the edges of a geometric network.
A mistake in Google Maps helped trigger an international boundary dispute between these two countries.
What is Costa Rica and Nicaragua?
This system is used to determine earth-based positions with high accuracy.
What are Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)?
A series of white sail-shaped shells serve as the roof of this venue.
What is THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE?
In October 1884, the International Meridian Conference hosted in Washington, D.C. selected this Meridian as the Prime Meridian. Having a standardized location was important for all future cartography.
What is the Greenwich Meridian?
Commercially available software or systems that are ready to use and which do not require significant customization.
What is COTS (commercial off-the-shelf software)
These objects sometimes block GPS signals if you are standing next to them.
What are buildings?
Two map projection properties that cannot be preserved together (Area, Shape, Distance, Direction).
What are Area and Shape?