The good news is that GIS software makes it very easy to import raster (images) and vector (points/polylines/polygons) data. That’s also the bad news. With a few clicks of a mouse, your GIS database ...

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.