On Saturday 06 January 2007 08:17, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On 05-Jan-07, at 9:30 PM, आनंद (Anand M R) wrote: > > what is GIS ?? > > geographical information system - what you do with GPS
Err. Not exactly. GIS is information specific to a geographical region. GPS is a tool that merely provides you coordinates of your current location. You can use your gps coords to extract info about your current location from a GIS server. Most common is name of the location. Knowing your coords 31.62004 74.87638 does not really tell you that u are at the golden temple Amritsar. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
