As Aronoff said in his book, the GIS could be done either computer-based or manually. Of course each of the two has its own characteristic that suit it best.I believe that the computer-based GIS, nowadays is the most advanced and used widely (of course with the pros and cons). While i also believe that the manual-based GIS (or manual system) is not dead. Meaning that there are people or institutions still using the manual method to overrun their GIS.(Wait a minute, do you think a GIS could be done...
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
As start, here i put some introduction from "the Father of GIS" -Mr. Stan Aronoff, in his book: Geographic Information systems: A Management Perspective (WDL Publication:1989). Of course it's not the only book to say about GIS, there are so many others. May be some of you have known very well with this book since it is used in so many universities as a must-read GIS book.Why should i use Aronoff's book here ? you ask.Well, i should tell you that the book is very good for beginner. As it stated at...
Saturday, August 11, 2007
People nowadays saying about GIS for Geogrephic Information System. GIS term spreads worlwide. More and more people getting familiar with GIS term. Even in Indonesia, my country, my oldest son -10 years old in class 4 of the elementary school- has a lesson at school about this GIS. Well, it seems that my child will get more familiar and expert than i, since he gets his first lesson on GIS in his elementary school, while i got mine at university. :)But, even so, i believe that may be there are people...
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