Population data used in GIS analyses is generally assumed to be homogeneous and planar (i.e. census tracts, townships or prefectures) due to the public unavailability of building population data. However, information on building population is required for micro-spatial analysis for improved disaster management and emergency preparedness, public facility management for urban planning, consumer a...

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) represent an application of information technology (IT) in business that has yet to reach full maturity. Like other forms of information system (IS), the development of GIS in commercial organizations has been greatly influenced by developments in IT and in the subsequent availability of software to exploit these developments. However the corporate use of GI...

The collaboration and parallel mechanisms in a spatial multi-agent system Geo-Agents are explored and analysed in details. GIS agent in Geo-Agents are designed as four types: system manager – Facilitator, users or applications oriented agent Interface Agent, spatial task undertaker – GIS Function Agent, and spatial database manager GuServer. In Geo-Agents, Collaboration is embodied in two aspec...

Geodemographic systems can make important contributions toward more effective marketing and branch location research within financial service organizations. This article reviews the potential of geodemographics to support various activities undertaken by financial institutions and discusses the role that Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can play in enhancing geodemographic products. Reviewi...

We propose to include the perspective of spatial computing in interdisciplinary courses on spatial thinking. Specifically, we recommend developing and applying a set of spatial lenses through which learners of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) get to see geographic space and choose spatial computations. These lenses are based on the core concepts of spatial information proposed by the author...

The use of geo-spatial differentiation in resource economics has become more widespread in recent years, particularly in the urban and real estate literature. However, previous to use in environmental economics, geo-spatial characteristics were used in international trade and theories of industrial concentration (Krugman, 1998). Geographic Information Systems, or GIS, is a database management s...

BACKGROUND A Community health assessment (CHA) involves the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in conjunction with other software to analyze health and population data and perform numerical-spatial problem solving. There has been little research on identifying how public health professionals integrate this software during typical problem solving scenarios. A better understanding of thi...

The dazzling development of GIS technology in recent years has rendered each of the traditional , mostly instrumental, views of GIS—as spatial database, mapping tool, and spatial analytical tool—inadequate to capture the fundamental essence of this technology and its social implications. Each year brings new software packages from innovative developers that are easier to use, more powerful, and...

GIS can be readily used to manage and analyze 2D information and also afford 3D visualization of surface features. However, general-purpose GIS packages do not offer capabilities for constructing or visualizing 3D geologic models. GIS tools must, therefore, be appropriately tailored to handle geologic data and accommodate the special spatial analysis needs of geologic information. Since 3D geol...

Besides being a hard combinatorial problem, the VRP is also a spatial problem. Hence, effective decision making in this field strongly requires the integration of GIS and optimization systems (GIS-O). This article integrates GIS and optimization tools for solving the vehicle routing problem with loading and distance requirements (DCVRP). A general outline of the multi-step integration is pointe...