Geographic Information System (GIS) is a computerbased tool used extensively to solve various engineering problems related to spatial data. In spite of growing popularity of GIS, its complete potential to construction industry has not been realized. In this paper, the summary of up-to-date work on spatial applications of GIS technologies in construction industry is presented. GIS technologies h...

GIS (Geographic Information System) usability is one of the most significant factors of government sectors like the Ministry of Environment, Planning, Forestry, Fisheries, and so on. In this paper, we present a methodology for evaluating the usability of GIS software. We demonstrate how to find out the severity ratings of problems in GIS software. A sample GIS user Interface prototype is design...

Visualization has become an integral part in many applications of GIS. Due to the rapid development of computer graphics, visualization and animation techniques, general-purpose GIS can no longer satisfy the multitude of visualization demands. Therefore, GIS have to utilize independent visualization toolkits. This article examines how visualization systems can be used with and integrated into G...

The current lack of error-sensitive functionality found in commercial GIS is at odds with the research focus error-sensitive GIS development has enjoyed over recent years. In an attempt to address this undesirable situation, this paper reviews a number of key error-sensitive GIS research themes, based on experience gained during a three year research project into errorsensitive GIS development....

A GIS (Geographic Information System), is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of geographically referenced data. In other words, GIS is the merging of statistical analysis, database technology and cartography that can be integrated into any enterprise information system framework. But despite all these advantages, geographic information system...

The idea of GIS used by citizens in exercising democracy, dubbed public GIS, involves the use of GIS tools to help laypeople understand the spatial consequences of proposed projects and actions effecting their communities. The widening use of the Internet creates the opportunity of elevating GIS to a truly public decision making tool by making it accessible regardless of spatial and temporal co...

A number of approaches for integrating GIS and qualitative research have emerged in recent years. Despite significant growth in public participation GIS (PPGIS) literature since the 1990s, little engagement by e-government scholars is evident in the extensive scholarly PPGIS debates. To fill this void, recent trends in PPGIS adoption by local governments are analyzed. Three waves of GIS are ide...

The Open GIS Consortium (OGC) has proposed a standard for the software architecture of geographic information systems (GIS) in order to enable interoperability among different GIS products. The so-called Abstract Model does not support spatial constraints yet, although most of the later proposals of GIS conceptual data models already do. This paper presents an extension of OGC’s Abstract Model ...

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a kind of computer software that allows people to work with digital maps in a fast and flexible way. In the past decade, more and more geography teachers have become interested in the possibilities of using GIS in secondary education. However, teaching with GIS is complex, and little is known about how to do so in an optimal way. Therefore, an Educational...

Despite the progress in critical GIS research in recent years [1], geographical discourse is still dominated by dualist thinking that understands GIS largely as a tool for quantitative or empiricist spatial analysis. This dualist understanding of geographical methods which was partly fuelled by the fierce polemics between critical geographers and GIS users/researchers sparked off in the early 1...