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Today Is World G.I.S Day! by ikorodureporta: 5:03pm On Nov 16, 2016
Today, 16/11/16 is G.I.S.Day.
G.I.S. Day is an annual event first held in November 19, 1999 by the National Geographical Society (NGS), The Association of American Geographers( AAG), and ESRI. Since then, GIS Day is held the third Wednesday of November each year during Geography Awareness Week.

Principal sponsors of GIS Day include: National Geographical Society, Association of American Geographers, University Consortium For Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), United States Geological Survey, Library of Congress, Sun Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, & ESRI.

FYI* GIS - Geographic Information System is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present spatial or geographical data.

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