Geographical information systems (GIS) facilitate the incorporation of spatial relationships into epidemiological investigations of wildlife diseases. Consisting of data input, management, analysis and presentation components, GIS act as an integrative technology in that a range of very varied data sources can be combined which describe different aspect of the environment of wild animals. The a...

This paper describes a unified framework for the problems of modelling and processing spatial entities. We propose a general definition of spatial objects, and show that the different types of spatial data can be expressed as particular cases of this definition. Furthermore, we present a taxonomy for the various types of GIS operations, defined in terms of the properties of this definition. Our...

Over the past few decades GIS and statistical spatial data analysis tools have been successfully applied in the fields of meteorology, environmental monitoring, ecological analysis, and mineral exploration (to name but a few). While these synergistic tools operate on spatial data, as yet they have not been incorporated into a single 'user-friendly' software environment. For this reason statisti...

Schools of business can benefit from adoption of geographic information systems (GIS). A brief overview of GIS technology is presented along with an example showcasing how it can be presented in a business school. GIS benefits for business schools, their students, and faculty are discussed. A comprehensive approach for promoting such spatial thinking is presented. The goal is to empower faculty...

The latest Geographic Information System (GIS) technology makes it possible to administer the spatial components of daily “business object,” in the corporate database, and apply suitable geographic analysis efficiently in a desktop-focused application. We can use wireless internet technology for transfer process in spatial data from server to client or vice versa. However, the problem in wirele...

The distributed spatial information system has been proposed as one of infrastructures for the development as a scientific research park in Kyushu University, Japan. The system is based on an autonomously-distributed database model with the geographical information system (GIS) technology. The GIS node, which is an important element of the system, is composed of spatial data storage, Web-based ...

A prototype geographic information system (GIS) for the analysis of motor vehicle collisions in Honolulu, Hawaii, is described. An overview of GIS hardware and software is provided along with criteria utilized in the development of the Hawaii system. Mapping and spatial data sources relevant to traffic safety are described and evaluated. The usefulness of Census Bureau Topologically Integrated ...

For location based GIS(Geographic Information Systems) services, to provide spatial data and spatial data processing functions to various users including personal users and other ASPs(Application Service Providers), a standard interface is necessitated. As location based GIS services can be provided through a layered architecture, separate interfaces are needed for each layer. The focus of this...

We present work on developing and evaluating a serious GIS spatial thinking game called SerGIS. We conducted a spatial think-aloud study with ten participants new to crisis response who used SerGIS with a coastal city hurricane scenario. Four themes emerged from participant responses: processes of reasoning, tools of representation, overlay and dissolve operation, and geographic information con...

The format of space data used in Geographic Information System (GIS) is different currently, therefore, exchange the GIS data among different GIS applications is not very convenient. In order to solve the problems, we take three methods. Firstly, the storage format of the shape document series (*shp, *shx and *dbf) is analyzed. Secondly, we study the technologies and methods of changing the sha...