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  • [PD-01-021] Object-Oriented Programming in GIS Applications

    Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) is a paradigm that abstracts everything in a program to objects, providing a template for varying classes. Offering flexibility through subclasses while maintaining consistency in the main codebase, it has revolutionized code structuring and significantly influenced today's popular programming languages. Concurrently, GIS leverages OOP to model geographic entities as models and encapsulate their attributes. This seamless integration highlights the enduring connection between Computer Science and GIS. OOP allows for different collaborative patterns to organize geospatial data. However, there are limitations in representing vector or raster data within this framework, which can be addressed with Machine Learning frameworks.