GIS Chapter 2 A gallery of applications
Terms From Geographic Information Systems and Science from Wiley, for Intro To Geographic Informations Systems at Mt. San Jacinto College
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- COTS
- Commercial off the shelf
- market area analysis
- activity of assessing the distribbution of retail outlets relative to the greatest concentrations of potential customers
- digital divide
- access to computers, internet, equipment
- dynamic simulation models
- computer programs designed to simulate the operation of some part of the human or environmental system
- branch rationalization
- closing down a brick & motor location in esponse to development of non-spatial outlets for same goods & services
- spatial consolidation
- when two or more organizations merge
- GIS applications
- must be grounded in sound concepts and theory
- Types of Diffusion
- Hierarchical, contagious
- hierachical diffusion
- to expand down a settlement structure
- 5 Ms of GIS application
- mapping, measurement, monitoring, modeling, management
- geodemographics
- analyze specific area people live in and understand geographically
- VAR
- Value added reseller (add-on software, repackages)
- contagious diffusion
- to expand across space
- What is GIS about
- solving real world problems