Definition:
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Geocaching: A high-tech version of hide-and-seek, geocaching is treasure hunting with a GPS receiver using a set of coordinates that tell you the location of a cache. The GPS coordinates are generally posted on the Internet.
Geographing: A growing hobby of photographing interesting sites, leaving a photographic and lon/lat record so other hobbiests can find your site. It is a marriage of picture, place, and time by adding Global Positioning System (GPS)
Geographic Information System (GIS): Computer systems or software capable of assembling, storing, manipulating, and displaying geographically referenced information (i.e., data identified according to their location). In practical use, GIS often refers to the computer system, software, and the data collection equipment, personnel, and actual data.
Geographic Position System (GPS): A global navigation system based on 24 or more satellites orbiting the earth at an altitude of 12,000 statue miles and providing very precise, worldwide positioning and navigation information 24 hours a day, in any weather. Also called the NAVSTAR system.
Back to GPS Glossary
Geocaching: A high-tech version of hide-and-seek, geocaching is treasure hunting with a GPS receiver using a set of coordinates that tell you the location of a cache. The GPS coordinates are generally posted on the Internet.
Geographing: A growing hobby of photographing interesting sites, leaving a photographic and lon/lat record so other hobbiests can find your site. It is a marriage of picture, place, and time by adding Global Positioning System (GPS)
Geographic Information System (GIS): Computer systems or software capable of assembling, storing, manipulating, and displaying geographically referenced information (i.e., data identified according to their location). In practical use, GIS often refers to the computer system, software, and the data collection equipment, personnel, and actual data.
Geographic Position System (GPS): A global navigation system based on 24 or more satellites orbiting the earth at an altitude of 12,000 statue miles and providing very precise, worldwide positioning and navigation information 24 hours a day, in any weather. Also called the NAVSTAR system.
