GG102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Semiotics, Qgis, Cultural Landscape
Document Summary
Gis- essentially involves multiple layers of data, the overlay of the data in combination helps to solve the problems two generic types of data- raster data and vector data, Raster can be thought of as pixels , i. e camera. Vector-rep. by points, lines and polygons raster is useful for inputting the information into a numerical representation. The world we live in today is one of tremendous cultural diversity, but it is also one of increasing interaction between cultures the cultural differences of a demographic area is a geographic trait. Culture- beliefs and norms, the day to day distinctive activities that formulate a cultural perspective about a group in society (process of making and maintaining a set belief or goals or language or etc. ) Geography - space and place, cultural geography- space and place interactive and the impact and beliefs that we have forced onto our landscape. The study of the interaction between space and place and culture.
