{"id":73937,"date":"2014-11-19T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/73937\/discover-your-city-and-the-world-through-gis\/"},"modified":"2014-11-19T13:19:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T11:19:09","slug":"discover-your-city-and-the-world-through-gis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/11\/19\/discover-your-city-and-the-world-through-gis\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover your city and the world through GIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Geographic Information System (GIS) is an exciting and functional piece of equipment that offers maps on which one can analyse terrain.<\/p>\n<p>November 19 is World GIS Day, the annual salute to geospatial technology and its power to transform and better our lives.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>In celebrating this day the metro will, on Friday, host an informative session to educate and to demonstrate the real-world applications that are making a difference in society.<\/p>\n<p>GIS is a device used for collecting spatial data, planning new townships, improvement of existing infrastructure, communications, environmental management, refuse, water, electricity, waste and so much more.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cGIS day celebrations will include workshops, tour map galleries, GIS technology demonstrations and career opportunities that exist in this field,\u201d said metro spokesman Themba Gadebe.<\/p>\n<p>The event is open to all to attend and will be held on November 21, from 8.30am to 1pm, at the Civic Centre Library Gallery, corner of CR Swart and Pretoria roads, Kempton Park.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='73273bfc99cf06ef1cbde5663b73704b'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World GIS Day celebrated by the metro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":73953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8515,2],"tags":[1003,979,969,5692,2734,1002,1004],"class_list":["post-73937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-gis","tag-melissa-hart","tag-metro","tag-municipality"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["Ekurhuleni","germiston","germiston city news","GIS","melissa hart","metro","municipality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}