The geographical study addresses three main concepts: environment, space and place; however, their approaches have varied significantly in recent decades, incorporating three very different conceptions of science and worldviews: all of them can be encapsulated in geography as a spatial science and geography as a social theory. GIS applications to date have fallen into the first of these categories.
The problem is not in being a tool or specialization, but in the way of scientific thinking may vary views, what is wrong if it was allocated according to the academic application method, such as programs and languages of programming and analysis, satellites and dives in the field there are geographers specializing in systems such as Michael Demirez and Eastman and Zhang,
Geography is the foundation for GIS. Conversely, GIS provides the technology for capturing, analyzing and presenting geographic data. However, in some institutions, especially universities, courses related to GIS, e.g., at MSc and PhD are offered in non geography departments. Irrespective of this, geography remains the foundation of GIS, just like an operating system in a computer!
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