GISsoftwareanddatastructures.docVIP

GIS software and data structures The power of a GIS comes from its ability to store relationships among and between objects. There are lots of GIS analysis functions. Functions should be defined independently of technical issues, understandable by users with little technical knowledge of GIS, independently of data model. Functions are used to translate needs into specific GIS operations. List of available functions is outgrowth of past GIS user needs. Some GIS claim as many as 1,000 commands. Some of these functions are: Measure Coordinate transformation Generate objects Select a subset of obj