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A specific point on Earth, distinguished by a particular characteristic.
Place
An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features.
Region
Generally, the relationship between the portion of earth being studied and the Earth as a whole.
Scale
The physical gap or interval between two objects.
Space
Refers to the relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space.
Connection
a two dimensional, or flat, representation of Earth’s surface or a portion of it.
Map
The science of making maps.
Cartography
A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth.
Global Positional System (GPS)
Is the identification and storage of a piece of information by its precise latitude and longitude coordinates.
Geotagging
Is analysis of data about earth acquired through satellite and other electronic information technologies.
Geographic Information Science (GIScience)
Captures, stores, queries, and displays the geographic data.
Geographic Information System (GIS)
The acquisition about earth’s surface form a satellite orbiting earth or from other long-distance methods.
Remote Sensing
Is the creation and dissemination of geographic data contributed voluntarily and for free by individuals.
Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)
Is the scientific research by amateur scientists.
Citizen science
Is community based mapping.
Participatory GIS (PGIS)
