Re: GIS presentation

hi,

just wonder what is HA site ??

regards,
hany
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mohamed Salem" <[email protected]>
To: "General_HA" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] 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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