USE OF GIS
Improve Organizational Integration. One of the main benefits of GIS is improved management of your organization and resources. A GIS can link data sets together by common location data, such as addresses, which helps departments and agencies share their data. By creating a shared database, one department can benefit from the work of another-data can be collected once and used many times.
Make Better Decisions : The old adage "better information leads to better decisions" is true for GIS. A GIS is not just an automated decision making system but a tool to query, analyze, and map data in support of the decision making process.
For example, GIS can be used to help reach a decision about the location of a new housing development that has minimal environmental impact, is located in a low-risk area, and is close to a population center. The information can be presented succinctly and clearly in the form of a map and accompanying report, allowing decision makers to focus on the real issues rather than trying to understand the data. Because GIS products can be produced quickly, multiple scenarios can be evaluated efficiently and effectively.
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