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1. Questions for your revision

1. Summary

2. Sample questions

Solutions to Exercises
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Chapter 1
Questions for your revision
Learning outcomes

By the end of this topic you should be able to;

• Try to answer this questions independently

• Answer as many as possible

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1. SUMMARY CHAPTER 1. QUESTIONS FOR YOUR REVISION

1. Summary

Geographical Information Systems is a very wide unit. Students can explore it

independently. It ranges from as far as accessing Google Maps and how to include

areas/places in the Maps. According to the Bsc IT syllabus, everything has been

covered in Lesson 1 to 9. Lesson 10 is for your revision.

2. Sample questions

The below questions are for your revision. Try to answer them independently.

• Identify some of the major issues which need to be considered when setting

up a web-based GIS.

• Explain the distortions that might arise between dierent parts of a map.

• Identify the two spatial data models used most commonly in GIS.

• Identify some of the major types of hybrid database structure used in GIS

and explain why hybrid structures are so frequently used.

• Discuss the strengths and weakness of raster and vector data structures in

GIS.

• Identify the characteristics of a GIS that distinguish it from other kinds of

computerized systems.

• Explain the cartographic model

• Identify and briey discuss the three types of  raster data.

• Explain the implementation process of GIS

• Identify and briey describe the four resolution types that need to be con-

sidered when assessing the level of detail in a GIS map.

• Dierentiate between spatial data from non-spatial data

• Briey explain the dierence between traditional GIS and spatial analysis.

• Describe in detail the coordinate system

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• List the benets of a GIS

• Distinguish and explain types of sensors.

Revision Questions

Exercise 1. With an aid of a diagram, describe how GIS works.

Example. Dierentiate between raster and vector systems.

Solution : Revise. 

Exercise 2. What is a topology in GIS?

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Solutions to Exercises

Exercise 1. Revise. Exercise 1

Exercise 2. Revise. Exercise 2