GEOLOCATION

Geolocation is the ability to obtain the actual geographic location of an object, such as a radar, a mobile phone or a computer connected to the Internet. Geolocation can refer either to location querying, or to actual location querying. The term geolocation is closely related to the use of positioning systems, but can be distinguished from these by a greater emphasis on determining a meaningful position (e.g. a street address) and not just a set of geographic coordinates. This process is generally employed by geographic information systems, an organised set of hardware and software, plus geographic data, that is specially designed to capture, store, manipulate and analyse in all its possible forms geographically referenced information.

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