Esri president Jack Dangermond spoke at TED2010 about GeoDesign, a concept which enables architects, urban planners, and others to harness the power of GIS to design with nature and geography in mind. Video courtesy TED.
GIS stands for a geographic information system, or geographical information system, which is any system that captures, stores, analyzes, manages, and presents data that are linked to location. GPS devices are used to map GIS’.