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100

This country has the most dataplor POIs

What is India?

100

This country, home to over 1.4 billion people, is the most populous nation on Earth (according to the World Bank).

What is India?

100

Jack Dangermond is the CEO of this company

What is Esri?

100

Despite being unable to walk, this mythological figure possesses comprehensive awareness of the world by being constantly planted in the ground, witnessing everything that happens in the world

Who is Kuebiko?

100

The introduction of this system in the late 20th century revolutionized navigation and mapping

What is GPS? 

200

This column on the places table stores information such as website, wheelchair access, and child friendly status

What is the data field?

200

This is the only country that is also a continent

What is Australia?

200

GIS is an acronym for this

What is geographic information systems?

200

This country was the first ever scrape that dataplor completed

What is Mexico?

200

By mapping cholera cases during an 1854 London outbreak, this physician demonstrated the power of spatial analysis

Who is John Snow? 

300

There are 27,683 records in this integral database table

What is the brands table?

300

This highway holds the title of the longest road in the world, stretching from North to South America

What is the Pan-American Highway?

300

GIS data comes in two main formats -- vector and this other type

What is a raster?

300

This customer holds the largest recurring contract by annual dollar amount

What is Apple?

300

First proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912, this theory suggested that continents were once joined in a super continent called Pangaea

What is continental drift? 

400

This POI has the largest building polygon in our database

What is Tim Hortons in Mexico?

400

This nation, gaining independence in 2011, is the most recently recognized country in the world

What is South Sudan?

400

This WKID or well-known ID refers to this datum for WGS 84

What is 4326?

400

Pulsatrix perspicillata is an owl which happens to be this dataplor colleague's favorite of all time

Who is Laura?

400
Created around 1569, this map projection became essential for navigation because it preserves this directional property along straight lines called rhumb lines

What is a conformal OR Mercator projection?

500

This beauty salon located in Zapopan, MX holds the distinction of having the lowest dataplor ID value in our database (id: 2)

What is Glam Studio?

500

This meridian, located at 0 degrees longitude, divides the Eastern and Western Hemispheres

What is the prime meridian?

500

A shapefile typically includes these three essential file extensions, .shp, .shx, and this one for attribute data

What is .dbf? 

500

This employee was the third employee of dataplor

Who is Monica?

500

Completed in the 2nd century AD, this influential work by Greco-Roman mathematician Ptolemy introduced a coordinate-based mapping system that shaped geographic knowledge still used today

What is The Geography?

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