Re: GIS presentation

Thanks Hany for your valuable information about the GIS.please keep
development running for this important application. I think this might
be a good introduction to be placed on HA site about GIS. We need your
point of view about this. 
Best Regards,
Mohamed A. Salem 

On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 13:27, Hany Heggy wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Hany Heggy" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 12:26 PM
> Subject: Re: GIS
> 
> 
> > hi,
> >
> > Sorry for beeing late, finally i can provide you with some information
> about
> > GIS.
> >
> > GIS stands for Geographic Information System
> >  it is an information system that can capture, display, maintain and
> analize
> > information about objects with geographic location
> >
> > GIS mainly deal with 2 types of data :
> >   1.  Geograhic data (location, color, linetype, ... etc)
> >   2   Tabular data. ( normal attribute data alike any other DB system)
> >
> > There are 2 types of GIS:
> >   1. Raster  GIS ( deals mainly with large area maps, normally satlite
> > images , used for land use applications)
> >   2. Vector GIS ( deals with low sacle maps, can display more acurate
> maps,
> > used for the utlities application )
> >
> > Typical application:
> > For example you can feed the GIS engine with maps for Electric or
> > Water/Sewer system and this finally to be save in database engine
> > users can do the following :
> > 1. Display the map
> > 2. browse and/or edit the tabular data related to objects on the map
> > 3. Edit the geographic object attributes like color, line type, etc
> > 4. Analize the network
> > 5. Design a new network area
> > 6. apply smiluation on networks for various load schemahs
> >
> > in short is it a database system that can treat the geographic location,
> any
> > organization deals with maps can make use of GIS.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Jamil Khatib" <[email protected]>
> > To: <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 6:04 PM
> > Subject: GIS
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> > Nice work on the GIS I hope that we will see some material about it in the
> > web site. Can you write a small tutorial about GIS to post it in the
> > articles
> > (or tutorials) section?
> >
> > I am with the Idrisi name which was suggested buy Mohammad because of his
> > great contributions to the astrogical and geographiacl sciences.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jamil
> >
> 
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