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geographic information system

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geographic information system

Summary

geographic information system is an academic discipline[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of academic_discipline entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,179 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • geographic information system's instance of is recorded as academic discipline[3].
  • geographic information system's instance of is recorded as field of study[4].
  • geographic information system's instance of is recorded as field of study[5].
  • geographic information system is a type of application software[6].
  • geographic information system is a type of information system[7].
  • geographic information system is a type of technique[8].
  • geographic information system is used for archaeology[9].
  • geographic information system is used for marketing[10].
  • geographic information system is used for cartography[11].
  • geographic information system is used for urban planning[12].
  • geographic information system is used for criminology[13].
  • geographic information system is used for logistics[14].
  • geographic information system is used for capacity management[15].
  • geographic information system is used for banking system[16].
  • geographic information system is used for precision agriculture[17].
  • geographic information system is used for geomatics[18].
  • geographic information system is used for water utility[19].
  • geographic information system's Commons category is recorded as Geographic information systems[20].
  • 1962 marks the founding of geographic information system[21].
  • geographic information system's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Geographic information systems[22].
  • geographic information system's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/gis[23].
  • geographic information system's main Wikidata property is recorded as P9601[24].
  • geographic information system's equivalent class is recorded as http://linkeddata.ge.imati.cnr.it:2020/resource/EARTh/89110[25].
  • geographic information system's equivalent class is recorded as http://www.cadastralvocabulary.org/CaLAThe/GeographicalInformationSystem[26].
  • geographic information system's equivalent class is recorded as http://data.europa.eu/bkc/017.03.01.0700[27].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include academic discipline[3] and field of study[4]. Recorded subclass of include application software[6], information system[7], and technique[8].

Origins

1962 marks the founding of geographic information system[21].

Use and Application

Recorded has use include archaeology[9], marketing[10], cartography[11], urban planning[12], criminology[13], and logistics[14].

Why It Matters

geographic information system ranks in the top 5% of academic_discipline entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,179 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 109 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

application archaeology Artyom Svetlov Beak Consultants GmbH Bettina Speckmann Bibhash Nath Biswajeet Pradhan CAD Forum criminology Cyrus Shahabi David L. Verbyla David Šaur deegree Frank Fuchs-Kittowski geographic information science Geographic/Land Information System (GIS) Research Centre, University of Hong Kong geomatics geOrchestra George Grekousis GIS Technologies GIS technology GRASS Guillaume Moreau Hui Xiong Jamal Hasan Jawg Maps Kenneth L. Kvamme Lei Lei Mamta Dahiya MapBasic

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . AGROVOC. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . AGROVOC. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . EuroVoc. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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