About wiki.GIS.com

The mission of wiki.gis.com is to ensure your success. Whether you’re a GIS expert or have just recently started using GIS, we deeply appreciate the opportunity to serve you. Wiki.GIS.com is a knowledge sharing platform that will enable users to share their knowledge with the community. Wiki.GIS.com will be useful in enhancing our knowledge of GIS, and will help geographers better understand GIS concepts and quickly ramp up their GIS skills to be more productive.

Wiki.gis.com is a community-generated GIS-centric encyclopedia that serves as a repository for factual, unbiased GIS content.Wiki.GIS.com will seek to involve the GIS community in an ongoing process of creation and collaboration of conceptual GIS information. Wiki.GIS.com will use the passion and knowledge each one of you has, in order to offer another resource for users to help others. All content ownership will be shared by the GIS community.

The success of wiki.GIS.com depends on the contributions of GIS professionals, students, and the GIS community-at-large. We invite all the people who share a common interest in sharing GIS knowledge and ideas to create a login account on wiki.GIS.com and then begin editing existing pages or adding their own GIS-related content to the wiki.

= Content Use =

Seed content for wiki.GIS.com has been loaded from various other wikis on the Internet under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license. In turn all content available here is available to you, for your use, under the same Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license. This means that when you use content found on wiki.GIS.com, you must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). It also means that if you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same, similar or a compatible license.

For more details on the use of wiki.GIS.com, please read our Terms Of Use, Disclaimer, and Copyright documents.

= Privacy =

Wiki.GIS.com is sponsored by ESRI. ESRI values the privacy of those who visit our the wiki.GIS.com Web site and register to become contributors to the Web site. To understand the full privacy policy, please read the Privacy Policy document.

= How To Help =

We welcome contributions from the GIS community-at-large. In fact, we depend on your contributions to make wiki.GIS.com the best community-based GIS repository on the Internet! Please feel free to create a login account on wiki.GIS.com and then begin editing existing pages or adding your own GIS-related content to the wiki. We have a list of requested pages on the wiki for which we are seeking content, but please feel free to add more topics/content as you deem fit. All GIS-related content is welcome.

At some point in time, we will also need help with moderation and operation of this wiki. Moderators will be selected from a group of active users.

If you are unfamiliar with how a wiki works, a good place to start may be our Help page. There you will find information about how to get started and how to edit pages as well as a brief manual of style to help guide you.

= Feedback =

If you have any questions or comments about wiki.GIS.com, please e-mail the site administrator at [mailto:wiki_admin@gis.com wiki_admin@gis.com].