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Geographic Information System or GIS is technology that offers a radically different way to produce and use the maps required to manage our communities and industries. GIS helps create intelligent super maps through which sophisticated planning and analysis can be performed at the mere touch of a button.GIS aerial maps can greatly enhance a GIS mapping project. Aerial imagery is a powerful visual aid and serves as a source of derivative information such as land cover, terrain, change detection, or vegetation.Today there are perhaps thousands of geospatial applications in use. Organizations, agencies and companies throughout the world use the technology to transform manually produced maps and associated descriptive records into digital databases. Once a tool that was affordable only to the largest organizations, geospatial systems and GIS aerial maps have become a cost effective option for even the smallest organizations.Geographic information system technology is widely used for scientific investigations, natural Read more…