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Applications of Geographical Information System in E-Government

Applications of Geographical Information System in E-Government

Yao Yongling, Wang Junsong
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 9
ISBN13: 9781599049472|ISBN10: 1599049473|EISBN13: 9781599049489
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-947-2.ch030
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Yongling, Yao, and Wang Junsong. "Applications of Geographical Information System in E-Government." Electronic Government: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko, IGI Global, 2008, pp. 340-348. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-947-2.ch030

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Yongling, Y. & Junsong, W. (2008). Applications of Geographical Information System in E-Government. In A. Anttiroiko (Ed.), Electronic Government: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 340-348). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-947-2.ch030

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Yongling, Yao, and Wang Junsong. "Applications of Geographical Information System in E-Government." In Electronic Government: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko, 340-348. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2008. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-947-2.ch030

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Abstract

Geographical information system (GIS) is one kind of information system that handles spatial data. It is difficult to give one definitive definition about GIS (Heywood, Cornelius, & Carver, 2002; Maguire, Goodchild, & Rhind, 2001). This variety of definitions can be explained by the fact that any definition of GIS will depend on who is giving it, and their background and viewpoint (Pinkles, 2002). The complete definition of GIS is selected here as: “a set of tools for collecting, storing, retrieving at will, transforming, and displaying spatial data from the real world for a particular set of purposes”(Burrough, 1986, p. 6). As an important part of e-government, is that it has functions of cartography, manages spatial data and spatial analysis.

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