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GIS - Geographic Information Systems

What is GIS? - Simply put, a GIS combines layers of information about a place to give you a better understanding of that place.

During the 5 years I was working as a GIS technician in Hannover, Germany my duties included database programming and preparation of statistics, maps, and images for environmental planning in highway and railway projects.

Maps like these ...


Environmental planning for a new by-pass - current status


Environmental planning for a new by-pass - future outlook

... have been created from code like this:

&if [exists %uv%/bio-cover] &then   &do     shadeset /disc5/p7757/lookups/p7757.shd     asel %uv%/mass poly     polygonshades %uv%/mass dxf-layer /disc5/p7757/lookups/massfarb.lut     resel %uv%/mass arc lines = 104     arclines %uv%/mass 104     clearselect     shadedelete all   &end &if [exists %uv%/bio -cover] &then   &do     linesymbol 114     arcs %uv%/bio   &end