Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- GIS(also: Geographic Information System, Geographic Information Systems)
- A class of software systems — such as ArcGIS, QGIS, and open-source geospatial libraries — that capture, store, manipulate, analyze, and visualize geographic and spatial data by linking location coordinates with attribute information. GIS underpins urban planning, public health,…
- Geovisualization(also: Geospatial visualization, Geographic visualization)
- The use of interactive visual representations — choropleth maps, dot density maps, heat maps, flow maps, and related forms — to make geographic patterns, trends, and spatial relationships visible and explorable. Geovisualizations combine cartographic traditions with…
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