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Geographic Information Systems (Gis)

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS)
AND TERRORIST ATTACKS OF OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING
AND THE WORLD TRADE CENTER

Submitted To
Mark Stallo
School of Graduate Studies
Of Tiffin University

In partial fulfillment of the
requirement for the graduate course
Geographic Information Systems
ENF 622

In the School of Criminal Justice

Summer Quarter 2006

by

Oscar Young



Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
And Terrorist Attacks Of Oklahoma City Bombing
And The World Trade Center

History of GIS

GIS is a way of organizing large amounts of geographic information. It is not a tool, a software, a hardware or a specific image; it is a concept--a way of understanding maps (http://cnx.org/content/m13693/latest). Maps are one of the most common products of GIS. Figure 1 is an example of how GIS is a way of conceiving maps as layers of information.

Figure 1. On the left is enlarged piece of the same Nile Delta map from before, and on the right in an......


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