 Hey, guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here. Today is a video I want to do about the GIS system, just introducing what it is. Because I've done a few videos over, you know, the past year, looking at various tools within GIS in Israel, the different GIS systems that are publicly available within Israel. Now there's a national one called GovMap, and I've done a video looking at GovMap. There's also an API available for that. And then some most major municipalities also make their own GIS system available online. One of the best ones is the one offered by Jerusalem Municipality. So I've talked about various things one can do with a GIS system. I've not really done one. It just occurred to me, introducing a GIS. GIS stands for Geographic Information System, or some people say Geographical Information Analyze System. It doesn't really matter. And basically, if you're familiar with Google Maps, you kind of get the basic premise of a GIS. A Google Maps is a, you know, mapping technology. And there are some layers that users can toggle. You can toggle between looking at the map and looking at, let's say, a live traffic layer or a terrain layer. So not all the information on the map is available to you. You need to toggle. GIS systems kind of take that concept to the next level. Instead of having one or two layers, we can toggle on a map. There is an abundance of different layers and different data that we can choose to see on a visual map overlay. Now, GIS systems can be maintained by private people. But in the case of this GIS system, it's maintained by the Jerusalem Municipality, by a local government body. And likewise, GovMap, the national Israeli GIS system, is maintained by the government of Israel. So these are governmental systems that are will contain information from different government bodies. Now, how to find how to find this online? Firstly, I'm using Firefox. I find that it works best in Firefox and not on Chrome. I typed in here Jerusalem GIS. You can also navigate to JerusalemUni.maps.archGIS.com. And what you're actually looking at is kind of a virtualized from the best of my knowledge, virtualized login to ArcGIS, which is a GIS mapping technology. So this is the main page of the GIS system. And you probably will recognize if you live in Jerusalem, the old city and the streets of the city. Now, if I wanted to go through everything you could do with the GIS, it would probably take me several hours and I would need to spend weeks, probably myself, learning all the features. So I'm going to give kind of a bit of a quick and dirty version, if you will, showing some of the main things. Because at first glance, it just looks like a kind of Google Maps, right? But different, but that's really, really, there's really a lot more to it than that. So the first thing on the top right hand corner, I'm currently on MAPA, MAPA in Hebrew. I'm going to assume a basic knowledge of Hebrew and ability to read Hebrew for these videos. So MAPA means map. And the next one you're going to have is, Tsilomea Avil is, excuse me, I'm blanking out for a second on the translation. Satellite imagery. Now, here's where the similarities between this and Google Maps start to break down. Satellite imagery looks decent, but it's only when you actually start zooming in and you have to leave the system to buffer that you see how powerful the satellite imagery is. It is many leaps and bounds ahead of the satellite imagery built into Google Maps. Now, to the best of my knowledge, you do need to be in Israel to access this system. And I think I'm at the top as far as I can get in terms of resolution here. We're already at the point where it's easily very easy to distinguish between individual cars that we can see individual items on a roof, etc. So there's a very high level of detail available here. The second option, again, of the top right hand corner is Mishulav. So this is a combination of satellite imagery overlaid with the basic street names. As you can see here, we're looking at Yafo Street here, and this is building 236. And I'm again just about as far as I can zoom here. Let's go out a tiny bit. This is building 236. This we have the name of this building. We have the name of this is 43 alif, etc., etc. So that's the first so you can toggle between these two. Now, looking at the top of the GIS, there's a bunch of things you can do. One of them is very, very cool. Firstly, this actually integrates with Google Maps. So there's a button here for Street View. And what you can actually do is click on Street View, then drop your cursor there. And you're actually going to be taken to Google Maps at that exact point on the map. So that is one feature. And this again, while we're in Google Maps, why don't we just take a look at the satellite imagery just to compare the quality, right? If I go to regular satellite imagery, we were worried about this parse. We can see this is about as good as it's going to get. It's very blurry. So the satellite imagery available through GIS, I'm just going to turn it on there for a second. And you can choose, by the way, between different satellite imagery. So we have 2017, 18, 19, August 2021, and September 2020. So I can look at the August 2008 satellite imagery. It's supposed to be working here. In fact, I think I need to get out of this view in order to do it. So I'm confusing the system a little bit. But theoretically, you can choose, if I go into Silomé Avere, this is 2021-08. And if I just use a dropdown, let's go back to 2017, give it a moment to load. And now we should be, if it's available, looking at satellite imagery from then. It looks like this particular one is not available. So let's try 2019. Here we go. So we have now 2019. And this is quite interesting as well. If you want to see how a particular street has evolved. So this was the, this is the street in 2019. And we can see there is a building here, nothing here. This is a core intersection of Yaffo, and I think it Chazzar. And then if we jump forward to 2021, we can see some things have changed. You can also, by the way, export anything here. So if you want to take a photo, you don't need to use your own screenshotting tool. You can do that all within the GIS system. So just to introduce a couple of new tours in Kaleem. We talked about Street View as one of the things. Now there's another one here that is actually kind of a 3D system. So if I click into here, here we go. And it's going to open up another ArcGIS window. And this is going to show you a 3D imagery that has been done. Wait till you see this. Because it's pretty heavy, it's going to take a little bit of time to load. What you can actually do here is, now you can see I'm orbiting on a 3D plane. We can actually see the exteriors of the building in 3D. So this isn't a computer game. This is actually real 3D imagers. I'm not sure how they even take this, whether it's built by drones or something like that. But it's, again, extremely powerful technology and very, very impressive. So I'm going to just actually go down. And you can see, again, the view that I have here is currently rendering. We can now see Zoll stock quite clearly. That's a discount store in Israel. We can see this quite clearly. But it's rendering. So it's going to take a while. You've got other things to do here. Now the real power, I'm going to go back to map view for a second. The real power is in the layers. Now there's a couple of things you can also do. And I know I'm jumping around a little bit here. You can measure distances, just as you would be able to in Google Maps. You can see this is one point. And you can actually do multiple stretches. And you can also select a polygon or a shape and call up other data. So within the layers, you have information coming into GIS from various government bodies. And it's actually organized according to its categories. So you can either do a keyword-based search where it says, So search for a layer, or you can just browse through all the layers organized by category. So if we go into, buildings and population, we have here certain information related to the building. If we go into Rehovot and Tachporah, we can do street names and transportation. So one of these here, let's go for Shvile of Naim. I'm going to turn that layer on in the GIS. And now we're seeing Shvile of Naim means bicycle path. And now we're seeing in red all the bicycle paths that exist in Jerusalem. Now watch what happens when I turn off the layer. We're going to lose those red lines. Layer on, have those red lines. So this is just one layer of probably 100 or so. So now I hope the differences between this and Google Maps are becoming a bit more clear. There's a couple of other ones that I find useful if you're concerned about, if you're looking for the neighborhood boundaries. Now people who use GIS every day are much more OFA with its capabilities than I am. But I do know a little bit about it. So I think that's probably enough information just to introduce what this is. Here we have also, there's Mikvot, so religious bathing facilities, Bateh, Kaneset. We can see synagogues. And another cool thing you can do actually, so these are all the synagogues here, the ones with the kind of Maghain David on them. Another interesting thing you can do is you can do an export. So you can select a piece of territory and then export that. And then that's going to allow you to export a spreadsheet with all the synagogues in the particular boundary that you've delimited over there. So I think again, this is going to be just a, because I intended this video to be a general introduction to the capabilities and what the significance of a GIS system is for that reason. I'm going to end this video here. I have done videos both about specific functionalities on both the Jerusalem GIS and the national GIS systems. And I think going forward, those are the ones I'll be continuing to do as I learn the capabilities of this very, very interesting, publicly available technology myself. In the meantime, thank you very much for watching this YouTube video. If you'd like to get more videos from me about technology, Israel, and many other topics, please feel free to subscribe to this YouTube channel. Thank you very much for watching.