GIS as a Tool

GIS : Tool or Science ? Demystifying the Persistent Ambiguity of GIS as “ Tool ” versus “ Science ”

Is GIS a tool or a science? The question is clearly important in the day-to-day operations of geography departments. Departments need to know if GIS is a tool that should be taught at the undergraduate level, or a science and thus a legitimate research specialty of faculty and graduate students. We summarize the debate on this question that was conducted on GIS-L electronic listserver in late 1...

Geographic Information System (gis) as a Tool for Development

Gis as a Tool in Local Policy-Making

Geographic Information Systems combine geodata with other types of information and generate maps for better recognition of local problems and more effective solutions. GIS directly supports variety of local activities (land-use and urban planning, economic development, infrastructure, transportation and emergency management, educational planning, tax assessment, environmental monitoring, public...

Gis as a Powerful Tool for Landscape Planning

The landscape planning is a process preceding the territorial planning procedure. It is based on the multidisciplinary territorial data assessment respecting both the given natural resources and area ability to cover social requirements without the landscape self-destruction. The most landscape planning procedures are formalizeable and this way the GIS technology is the very valuable tool to pr...

GIS as a Tool in Emergency Management Process

— This paper shows how GIS could be used to support decision making in emergency risk management. Paper describes GinisEmergency tool, which is based on existing semantic interoperability platform called GeoNis. The proposed prototype is intended to function as an intelligent, computer-based consultant in assisting diagnostic and decision making processes in potentially hazardous situations. In...