geographic information science

noun

Etymology

Coined by Michael Goodchild in the early 1990s, and quickly caught on in the academic community.

Definitions

  1. The scientific study of the nature and use of geographic information

    The scientific study of the nature and use of geographic information; the theoretical foundation of geographic information systems.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for geographic information science. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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