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Geographic Information Systems

 

            
            
            
            
            
             FIGURES AND TABLES .
             EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .
             INTRODUCTION . 4.
             COLLECTED DATA . 6.
             Data Collection for GIS . 6.
             Spatial Data 6.
             Techniques of Data Collection . 6.
             Date Integrity and Recommendations 7.
             Data Organization and Modeling of GIS . 8.
             The Data Model . 8.
             Raster vs. Vector 9.
             Attribute Data . 9.
             GIS Data Presentation . 10.
             Data Layering . 10.
             User Interface . 11.
             Application Analysis 12.
             Market Analysis . 13.
             Product Comparison . 13.
             CONCLUSION . 14.
             Summary of Findings .14.
             Interpretation of Findings . 14.
             Recommendations 15.
             REFERENCES . . 16.
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             FIGURES AND TABLES.
             Figure 1 Process Flow of Geographic Information Systems 5 .
             Figure 2 Data Integration .7.
             Table 1 Raster vs. Vector Comparison .9.
             Figure 3 GIS Presentation Layering .11 .
             Figure 4 Data Presentation Layer . 11.
             Table 2 GIS Application Summary .12 .
             Table 3 GIS Feature Comparison 13.
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             EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.
             A geographic information system allows a user to view data based on spatial relationships and make intelligent decisions based on these created drawings. For example, a geographic information system could create a map that displays the number of customers and average salary by county. By seeing this map, it would be easy market to our product to counties with the most customers and the highest average incomes.


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