Fridays for flashback; GIS

Today, I'm flashing back to a training I had some months ago on GIS.

GIS is Geographic Information System

• It is a system of softwares and hardwares used to solve problems.
• It is used to collect spatial information, gives the ability and range of tools to perform analysis.

How can it be used?

• Creating a web application*
  A geoform, used to collect data.

Creating a layer which is basically creating a map; you can use any of the following apps.
arcgis.com and developers.arcgis.com

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Some key words to note in GIS

• Point is location
• Polygon is building
• Lines
• Integer

Types:

• String is text
• Integer is up to 6 digits/Double is no from 7 digits up.
• Double is easy to avoid flag

It's a beautiful thing to do and I absolutely enjoyed the training!