You don’t have to go into the office.” In the GIS world, there are two different kinds of data representations: rasters and vectors. A raster is made up of dots and vectors are lines, Jones says.

How a GIS Formats Data: Vector vs. Raster The hefty challenge for a GIS is to portray our lovely yet complex world accurately yet rapidly—and without the need for a cluster! There are two tricks, or ...

Just so you don't get confused, you will also encounter other GIS terms like coverage, shapefile, geodatabase, vector and raster, which are simply data formats within a GIS application. We will get ...