GG102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Geographic Information System, De Jure, Human Geography
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Human geography - the study of the spatial organization of human activity and of people"s relationships with their environments. Geodemographic research - investigation using census data and commercial data (such as sales data and property records) about the populations of small districts to create profiles of those populations for market research. Geographic information system (gis) - an organized collection of computer hardware, software, and geographical data that is designed to capture, store, update, manipulate, and display spatially referenced information. Places are dynamic, with changing properties and fluid boundaries that are the product of the interplay of a wide variety of environmental and human factors. Places provide the settings for people"s daily lives and their social relations (patterns of interaction among family members, between genders, at work, in social life, in leisure activities, or in political activity) In these settings, people learn who and what they are and how they should think and behave.
