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a user-friendly, cross-platform GIS application licensed under the GNU General Public License.
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ArcGIS refers to a family of GIS software from Esri which includes desktop (ArcReader, ArcMap, ArcCatalog), server applications (ArcGIS Server), mobile devices (ArcPad, ArcGIS Mobile) as well as onlin…
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a specific software version of ArcGIS.
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an open source interpreted programming language used in many GIS programs.
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a JavaScript library for creating dynamic map widgets for web sites.
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an extension for the PostgreSQL object-relational database that adds support for geographic objects.
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a set of COM-based APIs from ESRI Inc. that are used in several of their products, ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Engine and ArcGIS Server.
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the main component of the ESRI ArcGIS suite of geospatial processing programs.
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an open source software server written in Java that allows users to share and edit geospatial data.
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regular grids of values, usually stored in an image-like format.
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A python API created by ESRI to perform geoprocessing and layer management.
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software "to create, manage, and distribute GIS services over the Web to support desktop, mobile and Web mapping applications."
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A vector data storage format for storing the location, shape, and attributes of geographic features. Often referred to as 'an ESRI shapefile', as ESRI developed it.
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an open source translator library & utilities for raster geospatial data formats. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. I…
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a programming language.
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a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. The data is free, and free of legal and technical restrictions. OpenStreetMap is often shorted to OSM.
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any method of representing the surface of a sphere or other three-dimensional body on a plane
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an open source object-relational database system.
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a prototype-based, object-oriented scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions.
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Applies to version 10.1 of ArcGIS
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a developer of general-purpose commercial GIS software, currently marketed under the ArcGIS name. This tag should be used for questions about the company rather than its products which will u…
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a web mapping service application and technology provided by Google free (for non-commercial use),
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On a map, a closed shape defined by a connected sequence of x,y coordinate pairs, where the first and last coordinate pair are the same and all other pairs are unique.
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a GIS operation used to manipulate GIS data.
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indicates questions about obtaining data
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the process of designing, implementing, generating and delivering maps on the World Wide Web ..."
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web mapping API from Esri.
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GRASS GIS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a free, open source geographical information system (GIS) capable of handling raster, topological vector, image processing, and graphic data…
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Web Map Service (WMS) produces maps of spatially referenced data dynamically from geographic information.
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a server-software sub-system (by ESRI) that enables the usage of Relational Database Management Systems (RDMS) for spatial data.
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A coordinate-based data model that represents geographic features as points, lines, and polygons.
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Software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed with or without modification.
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a particular database schema designed by ESRI for managing "layers", "versioning", "topology" and other ESRI application specific storage requirements.
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The study and practice of making maps.
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an XML file format used to display and annotate geographic data, made popular by Google Earth.
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for embedding GIS data, maps and geoprocessing into desktop and mobile applications.
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