GEOG 1HB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Geographic Information System, Maternal Health, Canadian Medical Association

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Lecture 17 gis ( geographic information systems. Gis applications in urban & economic geography: code red: mapping poverty & health in hamilton, creating an interactive city, urban planning: view quality analysis. Gis is a collection of hardware, software, data, methods and people designed to capture, store, manage, manipulate, analyze and visualzie all types of geographic data. Gis is not new (53 years of r&d) however, it is constantly evolving. Fully functional gis today provide a common framework ( or platform) upon which we can build tools, models, procedures that will help us to make better decisions. Gis is a multibillion dollar business used in many sectors of our economy: estimated revenues of billion globaly, growing at a rate of 30% per year. There is not a mainstream industry not using geotechnologies or geoservices. The hamilton spectator (april 10-17, 2010: groundbreak series intially ran in hamilton spec.

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