Thinking about GIS: Geographic Information System Planning for ManagersA planning guide for GIS explains how to consider the strategic purpose of an organization to ensure that the GIS will work toward serving some useful and important purpose, with information on active participation in the planning process and early identification of the desired information output, practical techniques for gathering feedback from the organization, formalized approaches to needs assessment, data considerations, and the work of specifying hardware, software, and networking that will prove appropriate for the desired results. Covered in detail are topics such as system design, logical data models, and implementation planning. |
Contents
Acknowledgments | xi |
Foreword | xiii |
Introduction | xvii |
GIS the whole picture | 1 |
Overview of the method | 11 |
Consider the strategic purpose | 19 |
Plan for the planning | 25 |
Conduct a technology seminar | 33 |
Choose a logical data model | 127 |
Determine system requirements | 147 |
Benefitcost migration and risk analysis | 183 |
Make an implementation plan | 199 |
GIS job descriptions | 233 |
Benchmark testing | 239 |
Network design planning factors | 249 |
Lexicon | 255 |
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