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How to develop and implement GIS?

GIS management and information management

GIS Basics 2

GIS Development Basics (1)

• Don’t start by considering which computers you need to purchase! You probably already have them

• Don’t either start by considering which software you should select for your coming GIS effort!

• And not either which consultants you want to engage

• Start by deciding which activities that should be supported with GIS and in which order!!!

GIS Development Basics (2)

• A doctrine for development, implementation and use of GIS within the organisation. A top management decision. Affects everybody!

• Commence with something well defined and basic – small, secured, noticeable, success story

• Top management support to the project manager • Awareness that use of GIS will have impact on

organisation, work flow, information flow and need for skills• Well developed method for development and

implementation of applications • Data provision, data management and standardisation

GIS Development Basics (3)

• Ensure end user influence throughout the entire process

• Make necessary delimitations in the project – if more than 3 months long – insert milestones

• Create a project organisation with ensured representativity and skills

• A project task means to deliver:- desired functionality- on time schedule- to agreed costsA matter of responsibility

The Information – A Strategic Asset (1)

• Geographic information – a very wide context

• Other types of information <-> geographic information

• Known

• Accessible

Metadata• Searchable

• With declared quality

Review the entire information management

The Information – A Strategic Asset (2)

• Information costs!• Data 75 – 80 %

• Staff training 10 – 12 %

• Hardware

• Software Exchange money

Focus the essential!

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Information Costs!!!

A city map data base 10 – 20 MUSD

Societal planning data > 20 MUSD

School data > 20 MUSD

Utilities data > 15 MUSD

Social welfare data > 25 MUSD

Road and park data > 15 MUSD

(a Swedish city with ~50 000 inhabitants)

The Information – A Strategic Asset (3)• Basic data - simple data

• Basic for the business

• Already used

• Meet the fundamental needs for many in the staff

• Browser-GIS’ + some simple analysis operations

• Accessible within the entire organisation

• Able to distribute through Internet or Intranet

• Plots and prints

Creating a ’Basic Data Set’

Backdrop map

Search- and ID data

Internal tabular data

Planning- and analysis data

’The Basic Data Set’ – The First Step – The Most Important Initial Data Sets

Backdrop Citizensmap data

ID

Estate Addressesdata

’The Basic Data Set’ – Already Used in the Daily Work

• Map production

• Elderly care

• School planning

• Estate management

• Infrastructure planning and management

Additional data to GIS – Types and Sources

• Map data – Vector and raster data, attributes

• Geological data – Vector and raster data, attributes

• Hydrological data – Vector and raster data, attributes

• Road and railroad data – Vector data with attributes

• Images – Image data (raster data)

GIS and Additional Information• The information exists - It is just to find it?

• Locally stored - ’single user information’

• Avoid data capture in duplicate – take care of already existing information

• Consistent structure, declared quality, proper access mechanisms, corporate data bases corporate data

• Efficiency enhancement

• Three essential assets:- the information – a true strategic asset - the staff and its skills - the infrastructure

Traffic flow during a normal 24h period in the city of Härnösand

Park Inventory. Source material for park and green area maintenance

Utilities investigation and information management