... and managing location-based information, and to enable elected and appointed official to improve planning and decision making. Geographic information systems are used for a variety of applications in the business world today. However, building and maintaining a geographic information system isn't an easy task for the IT department of a company. This process is outlined in the following diagram: Figure ... time consuming part of developing and implementing a geographic information system. The following is a list of some data collection techniques: 1. Scanning of maps to collect coordinate...

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