Organizations around the world are leveraging their information technology (IT) investments by integrating mapping and geographic information system (GIS) technology. GIS has evolved into a technology that can help people plan, design, engineer, build, and maintain information infrastructures that improve our everyday lives.
GIS allows us to view, understand, question, interpret, and visualize data in ways simply not possible in the rows and columns of a spreadsheet. Beautiful and interesting maps provide better decision making tools and analysis and make a difference in our world.
On any given day, more than two million people around the world use GIS to improve the way their organizations see customers, evaluate situations, and conduct business.
While GIS software and datasets can cost thousands of dollars, The GBNRTC is providing you with the opportunity to experience the power of GIS for FREE!
ArcReader by ESRI, Inc. is an easy-to-use desktop mapping application that allows users to view, explore, and print maps and globes. ArcReader is a great way to deliver interactive mapping capabilities that access a wide variety of dynamic geographic information. Using ArcReader, anyone can view the GBNRTC's high-quality maps created using commercial ESRI GIS software. While ArcReader will not let you create new GIS layers, it will let you perform the following with GBNRTC datasets:
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