Question 1: What is geographic information?
Geographic information is
simply information that expresses and describes the locations of objects
and features. It relates to the distribution
and patterns
of physical and human features that exist on the Earth’s surface.
Types of geographic information are as wide and varied as the field of Geography
itself, from socio-economic or demographic data to physical and environmental
data. It is usually treated as separate individual ‘themes’ of
similar types of information. You will be familiar with:
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Physical features or phenomena such as rivers, roads, forests, earthquakes, volcanoes, erosion, floods, vegetation etc.
And -
Human features or phenomena such as population, migration, electoral territories, poverty, religion, health etc.
So one geographical information ‘theme’ could relate to all the rivers in England.