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Quotes:
  1. The key challenge for GIS in the 21st century is to map the World and Internet. - Tan Chia-Li

  2. A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams. - Gilbert Grosvenor, Editor, National Geographic, 1903-1954

  3. Every map is the sum not only of the cartographer's skills, but of the many explorers who win the territory in the first place. - Stephen Hall, Mapping the Next Millenium - The Discovery of New Geographies

  4. GIS consists of five basic elements: "data, hardware, software, procedure and people". - Dangermond (1988)

  5. GIS is made up of three components: "GIS technology, GIS data base, GIS infrastructure". - Dickinson and Calkins (1988)

  6. GIS is "an institutional entity, reflecting an organizational structure that integrates technology with a database, expertise and continuing financial support over time." - Carter (1989)

  7. GIS has three components: "computer hardware, sets of application software modules, and a proper organisational context". - Burrough (1990)

  8. GIS comprises "four basic elements which operate in an institutional context: hardware, software, data and liveware". - Maguire (1991)

  9. GIS is an amazing thing, it gives you such a great feeling to be able to fly across the globe. It is out of this world! JK

  10. Jodie Kline is in love with GIS. She wishes she could play with maps all day long.