What is GIS Mapping?

Mapping has been on of man’s ancient arts, whereas today, mapping is at the forefront of technology and science. Today, GIS (Geographic Information Systems) assist people around the world in almost every occupation and industry to make better informed decisions that effect their work and community. GIS opens new doors of possibility in science, education, government, and business, from a single GIS user to a large GIS enterprise network.

GIS Mapping

Companies, public agencies, and consulting firms use GIS mapping in their normal operations. In many cases, they find new applications of their unique databases in GIS. Businesses can unlock their data using GIS to provide new and powerful perspectives on operations and market strategy, such as:

• Customer analysis by location, demography, and purchasing power
• Sales trends by product, site, and sales representative
• Locations of stores, factories, and facilities
• Facility locations (e.g., utility poles, pipes, and cables)
• Resource locations of staff, products, and equipment
• Delivery routes (optimal delivery route to save fuel and time)

GIS mapping combines geography (where) with data (what and how). Did you know that approximately 80% of al data can be mapped? The single flat, static map has been largely replaced by a dynamic map full of data, organized in networked layers, sometimes forming two or three dimensional models in time and space, all on a single desktop. With GIS you can now analyze information over different scales (from parcels to watersheds). With GIS you can now answer various ‘what if’ scenarios that were not possible 10 years ago. GIS mapping can be simple or complex, from representing a database of store locations and their market territories to analyzing pollution sources distribution over time.

Now, GIS integrates satellite and aerial imagery into maps and spatial analysis with greater precision and possibilities than ever. GIS mapping has reliable methods and solutions for virtually every industry: city planning, cartography, agriculture, health, business, natural resources, energy, real estate, telecommunications, and transportation. GIS consultants are ever adding new applications of GIS as they solve new and ever complex problems for their clients. GIS mapping and analysis is an essential tool for every industry as it can manage data, correlate, predict, model, and map data that no other tool can.

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