{"id":1966,"date":"2018-11-14T08:23:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T08:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/?p=1966"},"modified":"2018-11-13T10:29:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T10:29:35","slug":"happy-gis-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/2018\/11\/14\/happy-gis-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy GIS Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our Outreach Officer and Geoscience expert, Dr. Pippa Cowles, explains everything you need to know about GIS for GIS Day.<\/h3>\n

Today is GIS Day, GIS I hear you say what is that? You may have heard of it in your geography class before. GIS stands for Geographic Information System and connects geography with data – lots and lots of data! It helps us understand what belongs where and looks at data connected to a particular location.<\/p>\n

Data can be anything from maps, aerial photos, satellite imagery to spreadsheets. GIS allows all these data types to be laid on top of one another on a single map. It uses location as the common point to relate all these data set together.<\/p>\n

GIS can help supermarkets plan where to open a new store, help the police analyse crime patterns, or help aid vehicles get to a location using the fastest route.<\/p>\n

GIS lets us create, manage and analyse geospatial data and visualise the results on a map to help us make more informed decisions.<\/p>\n

Explore the relationship between Earthquakes, Plate tectonics and Volcanoes using GIS here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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What does it show? What information is stored about the Earthquakes and Volcanoes?<\/p>\n

Find out more about GIS day<\/a> and how you can book<\/a> a free<\/strong> Introduction to GIS workshop for your school.<\/p>\n

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Our Outreach Officer and Geoscience expert, Dr. Pippa Cowles, explains everything you need to know about GIS for GIS Day. Today is GIS Day, GIS I hear you say what is that? You may have heard of it in your geography class before. GIS stands for Geographic Information System and connects geography with data – … Continue reading Happy GIS Day!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[416,339,135,414,413,299,412,415],"class_list":["post-1966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-data","tag-earth-science","tag-engineering","tag-geographic-information-system","tag-geography","tag-geomatics","tag-gis","tag-gis-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1968,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions\/1968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}