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Then, What Can You Do With GIS?
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As well has having significant application in the
worlds of business and commerce and natural
resources the largest pool of use for GIS is within
the government, transportation and utilities sectors. For
government to provide services, it is important
that they have adequate analysis of data in order to
target scarce resources most effectively.
Some key industry uses for GIS include;
Electoral Services
=============> Recording and registering voters is a
fundamental
aspect of the one man one vote democratic
process. As well as organising the logistics of the
democratic process GIS applications can be used to
identify key areas where voter registrations seem
to be underperforming. Analysis also supports the political
press in the stimulation of debate which
maintains interest in the democratic process.
Government
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Government at the national, regional or local level
makes significant use of GIS applications to plan services.
Increasingly the ability to update a profile
rapidly offers government a chance to engage with
local people in the planning process. Computer
models can be designed and taken into the
community as part of consultation processes to
give stakeholders an opportunity to see specifically how
their thoughts and ideas may impact a given
plan. Mapping applications can be used to engage
with the population and to improve policy making
through greater degrees of transparency.
Economic Development
========> Economic development is increasingly
influenced
by government policy. GIS applications provide a
detailed analysis of all the social, economic and
topographical features that affect the economy of a
given area. They can then be used accurately to
model how a local economy would be affected by policy
implementations of differing types.
Urban and Regional Planning
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Urban and regional planning can benefit from GIS
applications because they allow for greater
transparency and stakeholder involvement in the planning
process. Spatial data are at the core of all
planning processes and local, regional and national
indicators can all be plotted to see the extent of
their influence on local planning requirements.
Public Works
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Public works departments plan transportation link
and utility provisions across urban and rural areas.
Current provision can be modelled using GIS
applications that can then be used to predict future
requirements given population churn and growth.
Schools =====>
GIS tools are important in the education sector for
both planning purposes and as tools for delivering
education itself. Detailed analysis of population
profiles can be recorded in geospatial GIS
applications that can then model what education provision is
currently, against what it will be in the
future at given times. In this way, educators will be
able to not only locate new provision appropriately
but they will also be able to judge more effectively
what services are needed in those facilities. GIS
applications are also important tools for schools, colleges
and universities to use to help students
understand a wide variety of concepts relating to
urban and non-urban life.
Public Health
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Public health services rely heavily on the outputs provided
by GIS applications. Socio-economic data
can be modelled by a GIS app to profile health
needs across local and regional communities. This
is an effective tool in determining how you locate
health centres and exactly what services those
health centres provide.
Surveying
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The surveying function of any local government
team is critical to the maintenance of roads,
utilities
and many public services. A GIS application will
allow the use of standard geospatial layers to ensure that
local planning and ex*****on of
maintenance activities is effective. Current software
trends allow reporting from GIS applications to
multiple data formats for use in the field.
Emergency and Disaster Management
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These services are, by their very nature, more
unique to a given location. A GIS application will
allow the addition of layers of physical data,
perhaps about forestation and wind prevalence in
order to predict the risk of forest fires or wind and
tide to predict the occurrence of flooding, and with the
data layered into an application can model what
if scenarios to propose disaster avoid an ce
mechanisms and to add real time data as a way of
managing an unfolding disaster.
Law Enforcement
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Modern societies require an effective law
enforcement function and GIS techniques can make
sure that decisions about the deployment of
resources at a street level are made most effectively.
Techniques like hot spot analysis help law
enforcement officials make informed decisions about where to
allocate police assets in order to
reduce crimes.
Gas
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The gas industry is dependent upon GIS
applications to manage the millions of miles of pipeline
used to deliver gas to the consumer. It is
effectively used to manage risk profiles for
pipelines and by doing so enables more rapid
response to pipeline problems when they do occur.
Electricity
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The electricity supply industry has two sections,
generation and distribution and GIS applications
effectively support both sides of the industry. The
generation side uses GIS apps to manage and
predict short term supply requirements that enable
demand to be constantly matched to supply. The logistical
side of ensuring infrastructure is managed
effectively allows for planned maintenance to be
scheduled and for potential trouble spots to be
identified.
Roads and Highways
==========> The planning of new roads and the
maintenance
schedules of existing roads are both areas where
GIS applications are used. Designing new road
networks requires a topographical analysis of the
landscape as well as predicted movement patterns
across local and regional levels. GIS can also be used carry
out considered impact analysis as part of
the decision making process for developing new
roads.
