History
During Geography Awareness Week, this celebration began November 19, 1999
What is GIS Day?
This map contains elevation and contour lines
What is a Topographic Map?
This is currently the tallest building in the United States
What is One World Trade Center?
Known as a key to the map
What is a legend?
A framework and set of tools for processing geographic and related data
What is Geoprocessing?
In 1969, these two people founded the Environmental Systems Research Institute
Who are Jack and Laura Dangermond?
This map is concerned with a particular theme or topic of interest
What is a Thematic Map?
This river is the longest in the United States
What is the Missouri River?
A process of representing a 3D or spherical surface on a flat plane
What is Map Projection?
This data form consists of grid cells with assigned values
What is Raster?
This country developed the first operational GIS
What is Canada?
Harry Beck created this famous diagrammatic underground map
What is the London Tube Map? (1931)
This state has a population greater than Canada
What is California?
What is Masking?
Creates a polygon at a set distance surrounding a feature
What is Buffer?
1972 was the year this device first launched
What is the Landsat Satellite?
What is (Claudius) Ptolemy's World Map?
This famous athlete dunked with a degree in Geography
Who is Michael Jordan?
This system is comprised of parallels and meridians
What is a grid?
Used to calculate the steepness of terrain
What is the Slope Tool?
This US Government bureau was an early adopter of GIS core principles
What is the Census Bureau?
Showing the layout of the "cursus publicus" this map illustrates the road network of the Roman Empire
What is the Tabula Puetingeriana?
This desert is located in three different States
What is the Mojave Desert?
This individual created the first projection method
Who is Gerardus Mercator?
Created in 1998, this is the de facto data exchange format
What is a Shapefile?