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Maponics Acquires Urban Mapping’s Neighborhood Database
Today Maponics announced that we have acquired Urban Mapping’s neighborhood database and product. We made the purchase for a number of reasons; with the most important being a tremendous opportunity to...
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Tuesday’s Term of the Week | SQL
SQL stands for Structured Query Language, an ANSI-standard programming language used to interface with and manage data in relational database management systems. Standard SQL commands such as “Select”,...
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Tuesday’s Term of the Week | “Polygon”
Simply defined, a polygon is a shape made of straight edges. In the GIS Industry, polygons commonly refer to a virtual boundary defining a certain geographic area by using longitude and latitude...
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Tuesday Term of the Week | Shapefile
A shapefile is a vector data format for storing geographic location, shape and other characteristics of a geographic feature. The format, introduced in the early ‘90s by ESRI, does not store...
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Tuesday Term of the Week | Centroid
Remember in high school when you were sure that you would never need to use all that math as a grown up? Well, it turns out that that was somewhat true. Our word this week is Centroid, which is a term...
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Tuesday Term of the Week | Overlay
There are many benefits to digital mapping. It gives users the ability to compare different kinds of information at one time. One of the ways this works is through overlay, a spatial operation in which...
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Tuesday Term of the Week | Spheroid
Continuing our series on interesting geographic concepts that you may never have thought about, this week’s term is Spheroid. A spheroid is like a sphere, but is not uniformly round. As it turns out,...
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Term of the Week | GIS
GIS stands for “Geographic Information System,” a specialized software that works with geographic data, allowing computer-generated maps to be created, edited, displayed and analyzed. Maponics...
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Term of the Week|Cartography
Cartography is a both an art and a science which goes back to our earliest recorded history. It is defined as the study and practice of making maps, and builds on the premise that information can be...
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Tuesday Term of the Week | Cartography
Cartography is a both an art and a science which goes back to our earliest recorded history. It is defined as the study and practice of making maps, and builds on the premise that information can be...
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