{"id":211,"date":"2017-04-07T12:23:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T12:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.birlaschoolkalyan.com\/?p=211"},"modified":"2017-04-07T12:23:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T12:23:25","slug":"geographic-information-system-gis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blog.birlaschoolkalyan.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/07\/geographic-information-system-gis\/","title":{"rendered":"Geographic information system (GIS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Anil Patil<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Teacher<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0geographic information system (GIS)\u00a0is a computer system for capturing, storing, checking, and displaying\u00a0data\u00a0related to positions on Earth\u2019s surface. GIS can show many different kinds of data on one\u00a0map. This enables people to more easily see, analyze, and understand patterns and relationships.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With GIS\u00a0technology, people can compare the locations of different things in order to discover how they relate to each other. For example, using GIS, the same map could include sites that produce\u00a0pollution, such as gas stations, and sites that are sensitive to pollution, such as\u00a0wetlands. Such a map would help people determine which wetlands are most at risk.<\/p>\n<p>GIS can use any information that includes\u00a0location. The location can be expressed in many different ways, such as\u00a0latitude\u00a0and\u00a0longitude, address, or\u00a0ZIP code. Many different types of information can be compared and contrasted using GIS. The system can include data about people, such as population,\u00a0income, or education level. It can include information about the land, such as the location of streams, different kinds of\u00a0vegetation, and different kinds of\u00a0soil. It can include information about the sites of factories, farms, and schools, or\u00a0storm drains, roads, and electric\u00a0power lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anil Patil Teacher A\u00a0geographic information system (GIS)\u00a0is a computer system for capturing, storing, checking, and displaying\u00a0data\u00a0related to positions on Earth\u2019s surface. GIS can show many different kinds of data on one\u00a0map. This enables people to more easily see, analyze, and understand patterns and relationships.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teacher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.birlaschoolkalyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.birlaschoolkalyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.birlaschoolkalyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.birlaschoolkalyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.birlaschoolkalyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.birlaschoolkalyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.birlaschoolkalyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.birlaschoolkalyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.birlaschoolkalyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.birlaschoolkalyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}