Timeline for How do you explain what GIS is?
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| Jun 4, 2017 at 1:47 | comment | added | PolyGeo♦ | I have placed an historical lock on this question after it was cited as a precedent for gis.stackexchange.com/q/242669/115. If anyone wants to make a case for a Wiki Answer lock instead then please do so at Meta GIS SE. | |
| S Jun 4, 2017 at 1:43 | history | notice added | PolyGeo♦ | Historical significance | |
| S Jun 4, 2017 at 1:43 | history | locked | PolyGeo♦ | ||
| Feb 18, 2015 at 3:51 | answer | added | Migill Jonsern | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 23, 2012 at 0:32 | vote | accept | Ragi Yaser Burhum | ||
| Mar 24, 2012 at 1:06 | answer | added | ratchet freak | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 16, 2012 at 13:27 | answer | added | Dale Loberger | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 15, 2012 at 15:57 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by whuber | ||
| Mar 15, 2012 at 11:50 | answer | added | spatialthoughts | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 15, 2012 at 3:38 | answer | added | Stephen Lead | timeline score: 18 | |
| Mar 14, 2012 at 17:17 | answer | added | tmcw | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 14, 2012 at 15:01 | answer | added | elrobis | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 10, 2012 at 8:33 | comment | added | MappaGnosis | If I find myself going down the Google Maps route, pointing out the limitations of GM helps to explain what GIS is along the lines of "You can't do such-and-such in GM... but you can do that in GIS". People think GM is amazing, so if you explain how it is quite limited, they then are forced to be even more amazed by GIS... either that or their eyes glaze over... just catch them before the fall :) | |
| Mar 9, 2012 at 14:13 | comment | added | CaptDragon | Starting with "What if you wanted to create something like Google Maps?" does sound a lot "like google maps". But i agree, by explaining the process people might start to get it. At least that is what you'd hope for. I think if it's your first time, the GIS explanation goes right over your head as it did mine when i was first explained GIS. The more you hear and see it, is when it starts sinking in. I'm liking James Fee's answer more and more as there are still many people that will never get it. Because they can't. You just have to tell them what they want to hear. | |
| Mar 9, 2012 at 0:40 | answer | added | robotcookies | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 9, 2012 at 0:31 | comment | added | Ragi Yaser Burhum | @CaptDragon Oh I never say "it's like Google Maps". But I do start with a "What if you wanted to create something like Google Maps?". The data collection portion, the cartographic output, the data QA, the routing functionality, the imagery and elevation tilesets with the countours, search, the processes used, I can go on forever. At that point it becomes a much clearer analogy. | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 18:02 | answer | added | Dano | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 18:01 | answer | added | Scro | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 17:37 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackGIS/status/177810310114189313 | ||
| Mar 8, 2012 at 17:31 | answer | added | Nathanus | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 17:07 | answer | added | MappaGnosis | timeline score: 9 | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 16:46 | answer | added | CatchingMonkey | timeline score: 9 | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 16:46 | answer | added | James Fee | timeline score: 14 | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 16:46 | history | edited | MerseyViking | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 8, 2012 at 16:40 | answer | added | Rob | timeline score: 7 | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 16:28 | comment | added | CaptDragon | I know you should definitely NOT say "it's like google maps". But i also too start from there, but realize it gives people the wrong idea. I also want to know this info (+1) | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 16:21 | history | asked | Ragi Yaser Burhum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |