Reaching Out to the Community

4DM Inc. Involved with GIS Day Education

<Toronto, Ontario>—4DM Inc is please to announces their involvement on GIS Day, November 19, 1999. Duncan Rowe, General Partner 4DM Inc. will be working with 4 classes of Grade 7 & 8 students from Henderson Public School of the York Region School Board.

A GIS (geographic information system) is a computer-based tool for mapping and analyzing objects and events. It combines the power of a database with the visualization capabilities offered by maps. Businesses, schools, governments, and organizations use GIS for a wide variety of applications, as GIS provides the power to solve complicated problems, experiment with scenarios, and present ideas. Although geographic analysis and mapping are not new, a GIS performs these same tasks better and faster than manual methods.

GIS Day will be held November 19, the last day of Geography Awareness Week (November 15-19), and is sponsored by the National Geographic Society and the American Association of Geographers. Since 1987, the National Geographic Society has sponsored Geography Awareness Week to promote geographic literacy in schools, communities, and organizations, with a focus on the education of children. The GIS Day celebration is a grassroots event that formalizes the practice of GIS users and vendors opening their doors to schools, businesses, and the general public to showcase real-world applications.

There are currently about half a million GIS users in the world, but most of the public is unaware of this growing technology. Used to solve problems in such areas as environmental protection, pollution, health care, land use, natural resources, conservation, business efficiency, education, and social inequities, GIS provides a unifying framework for analyzing and understanding the world around us.

Colleges, universities, K-12 schools, cities, and private industries are participating in GIS Day, giving the general public an opportunity to see how GIS technology is applied in many interesting and exciting ways. <Company> is in good company as they join hundreds of GIS Day sites worldwide.

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About 4DM Inc.: Specializing in geospatial technology, 4DM provides services, solutions, and products to organizations "in business". At 4DM, we provide solutions that leverage our rich experience and focused skills with spatial technology coupled with our broad abilities with core Information Technology. 4DM was incorporated in 1994 to provide services and solutions to any industry that deals with "where" in their business.