Chapter 1

Some Concepts That Underpin GIS

OVERVIEW

IN WHICH you begin to understand the rather large and complex body of ideas and techniques that allow people to use computers to comprehend and design the physical environment. And in which you use Esri’s ArcCatalog to explore geographic data.1

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