A whopping one billion people use Google Maps each month, but most users probably don’t stop to think about what makes the tool work. The computer-based navigation system that allows us to find the very street we’re looking for, along with the best route to get there and the stores and landmarks along the way, is one of many tools based on a geographic information system, or GIS. As more and more industries come to depend on this tech, the people at Pitt who make and study… Source link
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