What Is GIS?
A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a computer based technology that captures, manages, analyzes, and displays spatial (location) information through interactive maps. A GIS helps the user to answer questions, solve problems, and plan for the future by enabling you to visualize your data in layers, to easily see relationships, patterns, and trends.
A GIS can be thought of as a system—it digitally creates and "manipulates" spatial areas that may be jurisdictional, purpose, or application-oriented. Generally, a GIS is custom-designed for an organization. |
Online GIS - Baltimore Census 2010 by NSA |
Geospatial analysis can be applied for:
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- Accountability - track projects and project funding for reporting and fund raising
- Analysis: Communicate the disparities of housing levels and health indicators across different regions, overlaying relevant demographic or census information.
- Environmental Issues: Inventory the location and attributes of forest stands and endangered species, or model environmental processes such as soil erosion and pollution impacts to rivers and streams
- Wind Tower Site Selection: Incorporate wind, road, parcel, bridge, and transmission line data.
- Emergency Management & Disaster Preparedness: Model “What If” scenarios, map alternate routes to medical facilities, and map the capacities & capabilities of hospitals, shelters, etc.
- Infectious Disease: Analyze the outbreak and spread of illness and disease within the community and prepare for future outbreaks.
- Healthcare: Identify the fastest route between the current location of an ambulance and a patient, based on a database of road conditions.
- Marketing: Choose the location of a new store by modeling shoppers' behavior and demographic data.
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