{"id":518,"date":"2013-08-26T10:47:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T14:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sal\/?page_id=518"},"modified":"2015-05-20T11:55:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T15:55:44","slug":"what-is-gis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sal-sandbox\/about\/what-is-gis\/","title":{"rendered":"What is GIS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re new to GIS or you&#8217;re considering taking a GIS class here at the University of Richmond, you may be wondering what exactly is GIS. In short, a Geographic Information System is many things: people, documentation, hardware, software, and data being used together to answer two main questions: Where and Why? GIS is the primary tool for spatial analysis and is present in a variety of applications, ranging from science to business to history and everything in between. View the videos below for more explanation about what exactly is GIS. And for more information, <a title=\"Esri: What is GIS?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/what-is-gis\" target=\"_blank\">read these pages<\/a> from Esri.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is GIS?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-ZFmAAHBfOU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Layers of Asia: A GIS Journey Through our World<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qrfBIVx739E?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day in the Life: GIS Analyst<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rokWdaGc3u4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re new to GIS or you&#8217;re considering taking a GIS class here at the University of Richmond, you may be wondering what exactly is GIS. In short, a Geographic Information System is many things: people, documentation, hardware, software, and data being used together to answer two main questions: Where and Why? GIS is the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sal-sandbox\/about\/what-is-gis\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4955,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-518","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","nodate","item-wrap"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6Tv8N-8m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sal-sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sal-sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sal-sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sal-sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4955"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sal-sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sal-sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/518\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sal-sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sal-sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}