Published November 24, 2016 | Version v1
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Appreciating the recent advancement made in GIS by the development of Spatial Big Data.

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However, you look at it, GIS is an unseen world, a space that represents graphs, polygon points and lines. Today, Big Data technology can presently process huge sets of data in the shortest curve, it has since become the new frontier for geospatial analysis. Big Data is represented by three Vs namely, volume, velocity and variety. Analyzing this data can be very challenging thanks to the improvement in the processing power of hardware and advancement of software developments which has increased the chances for using Big Data technology to process geospatial data.

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