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Article: Celebrating the sixth annual GIS Day: hundreds of events were held in 73 countries around the world on Nov. 17, 2004, to celebrate the sixth annual GIS Day.(news line)(Geographic information systems)
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Visitors and students wandering around the Idaho State University campus in Pocatello found helium-filled balloons printed to look like globes with trivia cards attached. After finding the balloons, visitors brought them to the university's GIS Center and answered the trivia questions to claim prizes. More than 150 visitors came and stayed in the center to learn more about GIS. That's the point of national GIS Day--to inform more people about the applications of geographic information system technology.
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LandAmerica Tax and Flood in Covina, Calif., invited its corporate office employees to a four-hour open house explaining how GIS ...