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GIS Geographic Information Systems. John H. Vande Vate Spring, 2001. Software and data to manage location information Visualizing and managing Customer relations Physical Assets Smart Maps Visualize and compute with geographic data. What it is. Points Customer locations
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GISGeographic Information Systems John H. Vande Vate Spring, 2001 1
Software and data to manage location information Visualizing and managing Customer relations Physical Assets Smart Maps Visualize and compute with geographic data What it is... 2
Points Customer locations Facility locations Lines Streets Rivers Railroad lines Polygons Lakes Geographic boundaries Types of Data 3
Sometimes combine to single commodity Example: Ford Service Parts We used an “average” product Did not consider individual parts Danger for 1-to-Many Different “dimensions” of product Size Weight Cost/Value Service requirements At Strategic Level 4
Geographic objects like Points lines planes Themes Depictions of data associated with these Features 5
Routing Managing Sales Territories Conservations Tracking Assets Store location Taxes ... Applications 6