Research Catalog

Title

Thinking about GIS : geographic information system planning for managers / Roger Tomlinson.

Author

Tomlinson, R. F. (Roger Frank)

Publication

Redlands, Calif. : ESRI Press, 2003.

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Details

Description

xx, 283 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

A 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.

Subject

• Geographic information systems
• Geographic Information Systems
• geographic information systems

Genre/Form

• geographic information systems.
• Geographic information systems.
• Systèmes d'information géographique.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• "Further reading": p. 277-278.

Contents

1. GIS: The whole picture -- 2. Overview of the method -- 3. Consider the strategic purpose -- 4. Plan for the planning -- 5. Conduct a technology seminar -- 6. Describe the information products -- 7. Define the system scope -- 8. Create a data design -- 9. Choose a logical data model -- 10. Determine system requirements -- 11. Benefit-cost, migration, and risk analysis -- 12. Make an implementation plan -- A. GIS job descriptions -- B. Benchmark testing -- C. Network design planning factors.

ISBN

• 1589480708
• 9781589480704

LCCN

2003012141

OCLC

• ocm52347571
• 52347571
• SCSB-1340828

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library