+/**
+ * SECTION:gis-object
+ * @short_description: Base classes for drawing operations
+ *
+ * Objects in libgis are things which can be added to the viewer and will be
+ * displayed to the user. Each object has information such as it's location and
+ * level of detail which are used by the viewer to determine which objects
+ * should be drawn.
+ *
+ * Each #GisObject is also a #GObject, but not every GObject in libgis is a
+ * GisObject. The "Object" part of the name is just coincidence.
+ */
+