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Article: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS DAY EVENT NOV. 18
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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NORMAL, Ill., Nov. 5 -- Illinois State University issued the following news release:
"Cooperative Resource Management" will be the theme of the 2009 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day event on Wednesday, Nov. 18, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the McLean County Government Center, 115 East Washington St., Bloomington. The event, co-sponsored by the McLean County Regional GIS Consortium, and Illinois State University's Institute for Geospatial Analysis & Mapping (GEOMAP) and GTU/Geography Club, is free and open to the public.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology is a computer-based mapping tool that takes information from a database about a location, such as streets, buildings, ...