can anyone tell me about gis(geographic information system)?
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GIS stands for Geographic Information Systems. A Geographic Information System is a combination of elements designed to store, retrieve, manipulate, and display geographic data - information about places. It is a package consisting of four basic parts: hardware, software, data and a thinking operator
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All GPS can tell you is your location on the earth. GPS cannot tell you where your property corners are, unless you already know the coordinates of those property corners. Your GPS unit does not know where your property corners are until you provide it with the information it needs. \n\nIf you knew the coordinates, which could be either latitude and longitude that mappers use, or state plane coordinates that surveyors use, then you could use GPS to guide you to the corner locations. But since you do not know where the corners are, you have no way of entering the required data into the GPS unit. \n\nYou not only need to get a professional surveyor to survey your property, you also need to tell the surveyor that you need him to provide you with the state plane coordinates of those points, so you can enter them into your GPS unit, then you will be able to find them yourself in the future.
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An information system is a set of interacting artefacts and human activities that performs one or more functions involving the handling of data and information, including data collection, creation, editing, processing and storage; and information selection, filtering, aggregration, presentation and use.\n\nContent management system (CMS)  \nEnterprise content management system (ECMS)  \nDocument management system (DMS)  \nRecords management system (RMS)  \nDigital asset management (DAM) system  \nBrand management system  \nLibrary management system (LMS)  \nDigital imaging system\nDigital imaging systems automate the creation of electronic versions of paper documents (such as PDFs or TIFFs)\nLearning management system (LMS)  \nLearning content management system (LCMS)\nGeographic information system (GIS)
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Great dissertation topic!  I love it.  As you might be aware, this is a hot topic lately both in academia and in the field with the increasing use of ArcIMS and now the public mapping APIs such as Google Maps as well.\n\nI teach courses in GIS and real estate and this is definitely the number 1 interest among my students.  Well, perhaps using the GIS for valuations is equally as popular.\n\nThe best way to get started is to visit your friendly university library.  If your university offers PhD degrees, the library should be able to provide you with the info you need.  Two databases that will provide the most hits for you are Ingenta and SpringerLink.\n\nTo help give you a jump-start to your research, here are some publications that I have marked:\n\n+ Architecture for a real estate analysis information system using GIS techniques integrated with fuzzy theory, Pagourtzi, Elli, Journal of Property Investment and Finance, Volume 24, Number 1, 2006, pp. 68-78(11).\n\n+ Optimal spatial decision making using GIS: a prototype of a real estate geographical information system (REGIS), Zeng T. Q, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Volume 15, Number 4, 1 June 2001, pp. 307-321(15).\n\n+ Towards a 3D cadastre: where do cadastral needs and technical possibilities meet?, Stoter J., Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Volume 27, Number 4, July 2003, pp. 395-410(16).\n\n+ REALMEDIA: providing multimedia-based real-estate services through the Internet, Cao J., Automation in Construction, Volume 10, Number 2, January 2001, pp. 275-289(15).\n\n+ Real Estate Problem Solving and Geographic Information Systems: A Stage Model of Reasoning, Larry E. Wofford, Journal of Real Estate Literature, Volume 5, Number 2 / July, 1997.\n\n+ The Real Estate Information System: A National Project that Fully Implement GIS in Handling Land Registration Transactions in Qatar - http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/proc99/proceed/papers/pap961/p961.htm\n\n+ As a case study, you might want to check out uMoveFree ( http://www.umovefree.com ).  This company has leveraged GIS and other information systems in the residential rental market.\n\n+ The North Texas Real Estate Information Systems, Inc. ( http://www.ntreis.net/ ) provides the MLS and other real estate datasets for my local area.  As a case study, Texas A&M used GIS to generate various maps based on NTREIS data ( http://recenter.tamu.edu/data/gis/NtreisGis.html ).
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More commonly incar navigation systems using geo. info. sys. such as OnStar. etc.
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GIS (Geographic Information System) allow people to understand the surroundings, filtering the data, to look at particular items, like water, greenery. or build up areas.\n\nRemote Sensing, allow the collection of data, form remote sources, such as Aircraft or Satellites.  The key points is that the sensing body is not in physical contact with the Source that is been monitored.\n\nBenefits;\nBetter Environmental Planning, Better resource management,  Fast data collection.  Just to name a few.
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Try map.google.com. You can type in addresses and see directions and satellite pictures.
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Information Technology, Tele Communications, Bio Informatics, Satellite Communication and for complete profile refer the link\n\nhttp://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/in.html
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Depends on what you mean by "geography".\n\nDo you want maps?\nhttp://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/\n\nDo you want national statistics?\nhttp://www.worldfactbook.com/\n\nA little of everything?\nhttp://www.wikipedia.org/\n\nA general site with links?\nhttp://geography.usgs.gov/\nhttp://www.colorado.edu/geography/virtdept/resources/contents.htm\n\nArticles and pictures?\nhttp://www.nationalgeographic.com/\n\nBasic, general info?\nhttp://www.geographic.org/\n\nAimed at kids and educators?\nhttp://www.enchantedlearning.com/geography/\n\nGeography as a profession?\nhttp://www.aag.org/\n\nI hope one of these gets you where you want to go...
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Go to the ESRI website and choose the type of GIS program that you desire.  They also have a free one to mess around with. Good Luck.
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i don't know about a site but there is a computer program you can get that is the best we've ever used it's called Mirosoft map point, do a search online.It is very expensive but we just got the latest version for 65.00. Which is way below market price. If you do not have a lap top, Rand McNally has a road atlas that has all that infornmation, you can get at any truck stop. Be safe out there!!
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"Geography" just means knowing where other places / countries are located, and knowing something about those countries (including your own country.) \n\n"Geo" is the Greek word for "Earth" and "Graphos" is the Greek word for "picture" (graphic) or "writing". So, Geography is information about the Earth.\n\nWhat's it used for...? Suppose you want to learn about William Shakespeare. He wrote tons of plays around 1700, and they were SO excellent that we still read them today.\n\nWhere was Shakespeare from? \nHow do you get there? Is it far?\nWhat kind of money do they use? \nIs it expensive to get there?\nIf you are injured when there, do they have modern hospitals?\nDo you need to get any shots (needles) before you go there?\nWhat language do they speak?\n\nIf you know geography, you can visit other countries and do stuff. If you DON'T know any geography, you should stay home!
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right from the factbook, learn a bit about politics and national stuff.\n\nfor the north\nhttp://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/kn.html\n\nfor the south\nhttp://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ks.html\n\nGood Lucky with your research.
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The National Park Service has several locations for GIS info.  See the source links below:
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search the google for "GEOGRAPHY"
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what state u live in there is different way of doing this just go to your state hub and print what u want if u now how to use your gis hub servers off the inter net
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Cool question. GPS (satellite) navigation is totally interesting.\n\nNow  you can buy super cheap old map CD's like Rand Macnally StreetFinder, or Microsoft"Trips and Streets" on ebay which hook up to a cheap GPS. These will run on any old laptop and you've got a navigation system for low cost.\n\nNow you can also store a map on CD pretty easily and use it with an inexpensive GPS unit. There are lots of shareware programs to do this. Gartrip is the easiest to use in my experience.