Chapter 9 reading Summary

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Chapter 9 (reading) Summary

• Three ages of GIS
• Pioneering age (early 1960s-1975)
• Experimentatuin Practice (1973 - early 1980s)
• Commercial Dominance (1982- late 1980s)
• User Dominance/Vendor Competition (1990s)

Source Heywood, Ian etal. (1998). An
Introduction to Geographical Information Systems.
p.175.
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What can a GIS do?

• Traditionally, computerized GIS's have been used
  to document and analyze problems of environmental
  concern, support utility company infrastructures,
  aid governments with capturing geographic data
  digitally, and by disciplines in related
  cartographic or geological fields.

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What can a GIS do?

• Today business managers, marketing strategists,
  financial analysts, and professional planners
  have discovered the benefit of a GIS for
  organizing, analyzing and presenting their
  business data.

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What can a GIS do?

• Today we will review various examples of how GIS
  is being applied in traditional arenas, as well
  for business and personal uses.

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GIS Applications Just a few!

• Renewable natural resources management
• Oil, gas mineral exploration
• Business applications
• Election administration redistricting
• Urban regional planning
• Transportation logistics
• Real Estate information management
• Infrastructure management
• Map database publishing
• Surveying mapping
• Public health safety
• Research education

Source Lakhan, V. Chris. (1996). Introductory
Geographical Information Systems. p. 7.
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Directional MapsPersonal Business

• Free
• Mapblast
• MapQuest
• For Fee
• Etak Products
• Road Scholar's City Streets
• Other Tools

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Exercise Exploring Jarrahlea

• Jarrahlea is a small property in Perth, Western
  Australia. The Mediterranean climate, of hot dry
  summers warm, wet winters create numerous water
  challenges. They capture water during the winter
  using dams rain tanks, which then must last
  though the summer dry season.

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• How many layers of data are displayed
• What proportion of all tea-trees are withing 10
  metres of the creek?

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Davis, David E. (2000). 2nd Edition. GIS For
Everyone. CD-Rom.
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Further GIS uses

• ESRI GIS for your Specialty