Welcome to GIS @ Tufts

Introduction Welcome to gis.tufts.edu, a new university-wide resource that provides information about GIS technology resources across the three Tufts campuses. The site is intended to serve as a guide for the Tufts community to GIS Instruction, GIS Software & Computing, GIS Data Resources, GIS Communities, and to the GIS Center. The GIS Center, a full-service computing facility, mantains this site and serves as the central hub to GIS activities and services at Tufts. The site is brought to you by Academic Technology which is a division of University Information Technology. gis.tufts.edu is a beta site. The new full-featured site will be released in early 2007. Please submit any suggestions or comments to gis-support@elist.tufts.edu. We welcome your ideas.

What is GIS? The field of Geographic Information Science integrates the principles of geography with the latest technology in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). A GIS is a set of software, hardware, data, and methods that allow users to enter, store, display, transform, overlay and analyze digital, spatial data. The suite of tools offered by GIS enables users to incorporate the importance of location into the way they visualize and analyze research data. More information: ESRI's What is GIS?