GIS stores information about the world as a collection of thematic layers that can be linked together by geography. This simple but extremely powerful and versatile concept has proven invaluable for solving many real world problems from tracking delivery vehicles to recording details of planning application, to modeling global atmospheric circulation.
The thematic layer approach allows us to organize the complexity of the real world into a simple representation to help facilitate our understanding of natural relationship.
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Last Updated on 28 September 2012