My journey into the GIS world
Most people in software development are familiar with time-aspect of data. Data can have a certain time, like events or a certain period. By now there are good tools and libraries to handle complex issues, such as different time-zones and DST (Daylight Saving Time). And developers now know how to use those libraries and tools.Data can have geographic aspect too , besides WHEN we also have WHERE. In the last half year I had the pleasure to work with some experts on geographic data aka GIS. What I picked up (no particular order) Not just GPS Geographical coordinates are not just GPS coordinates. There are a lot of other coordinate systems and geographical systems. The X and Y coordinates usually refer to WGS84, most commonly recognizable in Google Maps or OpenStreetMap, but there are a lot of other coordinate reference systems too. GIS can be complex, but you don’t and…