Community Coder is software that businesses can use to identify targeted audiences and customer prospects by appending geographic coordinates and data variables to customer records.

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The USGS Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data files are digital representations of cartographic information in a raster form. DEMs consist of a sampled array of elevations for a number of ground positions at regularly spaced intervals.

“But where is location-based technology leading us in the larger sense? And where’s the business model beef? The first Where 2.0 Conference brings together the people, projects, and issues leading the charge into this technological frontier.”

“As a surveyor, you have vast opportunities. You can map the world’s terrain. Explore new oil sources. Investigate crime scenes. Take charge as a CEO. Appear in court as an expert witness…” […]

GIS gain much of their power from being able to collate and cross-reference many types of data by location.