Geographic Information Systems

Strategic Planning and Management Through The Application of Computer Technology On the walls of caves near Lascaux, France, Cro-Magnon hunters drew pictures of the animals they hunted 35,000 years ago. Associated with the animal drawings is a map; track lines and tallies thought to depict migration routes. These early records followed the two-element structure of modern geographic information systems: a graphic file linked to an attribute database. The map has been in existence in much the …

…be an enhancement to many applications whose increased benefits for users and suppliers will rapidly evolve as open systems become the norm. Obviously, there is an enormous growth potential for the GIS, which should come through broader proliferation in different markets, due to lower cost software/hardware and data availability. With time, the systems are expected to become more user-focused as both users and buyers will expect quality, cost-effective, and significantly simpler application-based GIS solutions.