No man is an island. You will need some strong connections and healthy relationships to count on when things get tough. Especially when it comes to your family. Fact is, modern lifestyle makes it hard to stay connected with your family and have fun.

It seems like you have to invest more time to make money than to have some connections with others. But just take a break and look back. Is it really that hard to balance between the two? I don't think so.

Here is a list of 5 fun and meaningful activities you can do in your free time. They will not only help you have some fun but also strengthen the family relationships.

Activity #1: Design a good dinner and gather other members around you

Believe me, this simple deed goes a long way in strengthening your family relationships.

Isn't it true that misunderstanding between people happens when they don't have time to talk to each other? Then a dinner with all family members sitting together will be a great opportunity to solve this problem.

Moreover, it can bring in a little surprise which is a very good plus point. Especially when dinning together with you as the chef is almost impossible!

Activity #2: Go visit your relatives on weekends

Here is another simple and doable thing you can do. But it's very effective though!

If it doesn't cost you too much time for traveling then do it. Your relatives deserve a visit after a long period of time, right? And I know they will be very happy to welcome you. And you will feel happy too because you know you've brought them happiness!

Activity #3: Go talk with your kids

Ah, this is where your dad's (or mom's) responsibility comes in.

Remember that no matter how busy you are, if you have kids, you have to keep an eye on them. Don't let them grow up feeling lonely and misunderstood by their parents.

Even a short but constructive talk between you and them will make a huge difference. They will know that you still love them and care about them. That's when you will feel backed up and can concentrate more on your job!

Activity #4: Share your problems and concerns with your spouse

Think this advice is obvious? Yet there are countless couples hold their secrets alone and don't share with each other.

That's why they are suffering from stress and other mental illnesses. Remember the role of your family? It's to create a safe nest for you to hide from the storm outside. Why you can't feel safe and comfortable to share with others?

Try this once and find out yourself.

Activity #5: Have your family in one place and enjoy an interesting movie

This is super fun if that movie is a comedy! But it's not the only choice.

Just a small note here. Because you're having your kids watching the movie with you, make sure you choose the movie carefully. Because there are some inappropriate kinds of them out there. Family related films work best!

And I know to do this you will need some special things like a home entertainment system. But I think the most important thing is the sound speakers.

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Gis Services Of Modern World

Modern GIS

Before the advancement of modern GIS, analysis procedures would have been manually undertaken using transparent overlays or run through very slow and incompetent machines with far less power than todays machines. GIS in the past mainly meant the information obtained from maps.

The indispensable advantage of modern GIS is that all the functionality for working with manifold sets of geographic data are assembled and automated within one piece of software with improved efficiency and speed.

The input, storage and display of geographical information are now realized in a computer and hence the features and themes can be manipulated, combined and analyzed to generate new information.

Different GIS software packages are available with different functionality and interfaces. ESRI is the worlds most popular GIS software package.

Some common examples of GIS

Geographic information is as wide and varied from socio-economic or demographic data to physical and environmental data, treated as separate l themes of similar types of information. Eg: Physical features or phenomena such as rivers, roads, forests, earthquakes, volcanoes, erosion, floods, vegetation etc. and Human features or phenomena such as population, migration, electoral territories, poverty, religion, health etc.

One such theme could relate to all the rivers in a country. The physical features can include flooding and pollution. The location element is the postcode.

One of the main sources of human geographic information is the Census. It records a large number of variables about every person in the a country including employment, housing and health. The geography element of it is the location of where people live.

Essentially, geographic information states WHAT is WHERE which needs to record these two elements somehow. Data can be captured from aerial photography, satellite images, field samples, land surveying, population censuses, global positioning systems (GPS) and government administrative records among others.

For combining geographic information themes, geography or location is used as the common denominator or the link. It has the potential to generate new information on patterns and relationships between multiple sets of geographic information that would otherwise be missed, and to aid in answering more complex questions or decision-making.

A typical example is Jon Snows investigation of Cholera in Victorian London in 1854. He identified the locations of incidences of Cholera against the location of water pumps, and noticed its gathering pattern around the Broad Street water pump. He identified the contaminated source and created the beginning of modern epidemiology. A map of just the water pumps or incidences of Cholera alone would have been of little value.

Again take the example of flood risk maps where the combined geographic information on the locations of properties and the locations of flood zones can help to identify properties at risk of flooding. This combined information is of huge value to environmental groups and insurance companies providing new information that would not be detectable otherwise.

The advantages of modern GIS

Modern GIS has several advantages over the old techniques of map-making and information gathering. Some of modern GIS are:

Can cover large study areas (the whole world if necessary)

Can deal with larger amounts of data

Can easily select any sub-study area

Can cope with frequent and infinite edits and changes

More powerful and resistant to damage

Quicker and more efficient

Requires less person, time and money

The Census is the most familiar examples of how GIS can store and display a number of large datasets for the entire country quickly and easily. Without the help of GIS, you would have had to search manually through records on your computer on telephone staff at the Census office to get information about your area of interest.

With GIS, data for any area can be accessed quickly and easily according to a location. We can now store and show maps and aerial photographs covering the whole of a country. For example, Multimap through which you can know exactly where every town and village in the UK was, you would be unable to provide the level of information that Multimap is able to do in just a few seconds. Essentially, you are able to customise your data to suit your needs.

GIS software has a large variety of tools of varying levels of complexity. Shown below are some core standard functions common to GIS software packages.

Query: Ask questions of feature attributes like: where is _? Whats the nearest_? What intersects with _?

Mapping and cartography: Visualize features and edit symbology and colours to create an output map with title, scale bar, north arrow etc.

Select: Classify features and their attributes that meet some criteria.

Distance: Estimate the distance between features.

Buffers: Rings drawn around features at a particular distance from the features.

Overlay: The display of diverse layers of information at one location.

Clip: Makes an input layer to the size and extent of a selected layer.

Merge: Merges multiple layers into a single layer.

Raster analysis: A complete separate suite of tools for raster analysis which includes classifying cells, deriving aspect and slope, mosaicing and calculating new cell values among many others.

3D: Data can be analyzed with height in 3-dimensions for powerful visualization

Who uses GIS and Why?

GIS has evolved into a technology that is used by a huge number of industries and agencies to help plan, design, engineer, build and maintain information infrastructures that effects our everyday lives.

Use of GIS in different industry

Forestry: Inventory and management of resources

Police: Crime mapping to target resources

Epidemiology: To link clusters of disease to sources

Transport: Monitoring routes

Utilities: Managing pipe networks

Oil: Monitoring ships and managing pipelines

Central and local government: Evidence for funding and policy (eg.) deprivation

Health: Planning services and health impact assessments

Environment agencies: Identifying areas of risk from e.g. flood

Emergency departments e.g. ambulance: Planning quickest routes

Retail: Store location

Marketing: Locating target customers

Military: Troop movement

Mobile phone companies: Locating masts

Land ReGIStry: Recording and managing land and property

Estate agents: Locating properties that match certain criteria

Insurance: Identifying risk e.g. properties at risk of flooding

Agriculture: Analyzing crop yields

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