Map-tastic Facts
This is the capital of Mongolia
What is Ulaanbaatar?
GIS is the acronym
What is Geographic Information Systems
What is the Buffer tool?
This was chosen as Australia’s capital in 1908 as a compromise between rivals Sydney and Melbourne.
What is Canberra?
This country has the longest coastline
What is Canada
These are the 2 main data types in GIS
What are raster and vector?
This term describes aligning data to a known coordinate system
What is georeferencing?
This capital city is home to the busiest pedestrian crossing in the world where up to 3,000 people cross at once during peak times.
This is the smallest country in the world
What is Vatican City?
These are the basic files needed for a shapefile to be usable in GIS
what are shp, shx, dbf, (prj is highly recommended)?
What is the Union tool?
This African city is the only capital city in the world that has a national park within its boundaries.
What is Nairobi, Kenya?
This continent has the most countries
What is Africa?
UTM is the acronym for this
What is Universal Transverse Mercator
What is Intersect
This capital city was built in just 41 months and designed in the shape of an airplane when viewed from above. The national language is portugese.
What is Brasilia, Brazil?
This is the longest river in the world
What is the Nile river?
This person is an English-Canadian geographer who invented the first Geographic Information System (GIS)
Who is Roger Tomlinson?
What is the Dissolve tool?
This northern city is powered almost entirely by renewable energy, primarily geothermal and hydroelectric. It's also in a country on its own island.
What is Reykavik