Thinking About GIS
Geographic Information System Planning for Managers
5th Edition
Published on 26. September 2013
298 pages
978-1-58948-352-1 (ISBN)
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Thinking About GIS: Geographic Information System Planning for Managers presents a planning model for designing data and technology systems that will meet any organization's specific needs. Designed for two primary audiences, senior managers who oversee information technologies and technical specialists responsible for system design, this book provides a common platform on which to conduct GIS planning.
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Dr. Roger Tomlinson created the first computerized geographic information system in the 1960s while working for the Canadian government. Born in England, he settled in Canada after military service and university, where his work in geomorphology led to applying computerized methods for handling map information. Tomlinson has had a distinguished career as a pioneer in GIS and developed Tomlinson Associates Ltd., which provides geographic consulting services. For twelve years he was chairman of the International Geographical Union GIS Commission, a president of the Canadian Association of Geographers, and most recently was the second-ever recipient of the prestigious Alexander Graham Bell award from the National Geographic Society.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 GIS: The whole picture
- Scope of GIS projects
- The who, what, when, where, why
- Chapter 2 Overview of the method
- The nine-stage GIS planning methodology
- Focus: Let each step inform the next
- Chapter 3 Consider the strategic purpose
- Chapter 4 Build the foundation
- Focus: GIS and management accountability frameworks
- The planning proposal
- Assemble the teams
- The planning team
- The enterprise planning team
- The management committee
- The crucial role of GIS manager
- A note about the organizational structure
- Focus: Plan ahead for the time commitment
- Chapter 5 Conduct a technology seminar
- Seminar components and tips
- Focus: Purpose of the technology seminar
- Set the stage
- Plan the program
- Assess information needs
- Go with the workflow
- Focus: Modeling workflow processes
- Chapter 6 Describe the information products
- The individual components of an IPD
- Focus: IPDs: The building blocks of GIS planning
- Title
- Name of the department and person who needs it
- Synopsis
- Map output requirements
- Schematic requirements
- List output requirements
- Focus: Three-dimensional representation
- Document retrieval requirements
- Steps required to make the product
- Processing complexity
- Focus: ArcGIS Online
- Focus: A rapid prototyping tool
- Display complexity
- Frequency of use
- Focus: Measuring display complexity
- Logical linkages
- Error tolerance
- Focus: Maximize efficiency
- Wait and response tolerances
- Current cost
- Benefit analysis
- Sign-offs
- Case study: Tracking the IPD
- Master input data list (MIDL)
- Components of an MIDL
- Assembling the MIDL
- Functions needed to input data
- Focus: Using and creating a data cache
- Focus: Data shoe box
- Setting priorities
- The scoring method
- The group-consensus method
- Input data priorities
- Chapter 7 Consider the data design
- Data characteristics
- Scale
- Resolution
- Map projection
- Focus: Data accuracy
- Error tolerance
- Case study: Determining the required positional accuracy
- Data design capabilities
- Survey capabilities
- Topology
- Temporal data
- Cartography
- Geoprocessing and spatial analysis
- Network analysis
- Focus: Data structure for networks
- Imagery
- Terrain modeling
- Mobile technology
- Integrated services
- Data logistics
- Digital data sources
- Standards for technology and data
- Data conversion and interoperability
- Focus: Finding data on the web
- Focus: Search capabilities
- Chapter 8 Choose a logical database model
- The relational database model
- Components of the relational model
- The object-oriented database model
- Components of the object-oriented database model
- Class diagrams
- The object-relational database model
- The geodatabase
- Focus: Ontologies
- Advantages and disadvantages
- Chapter 9 Determine system requirements
- Scoping hardware requirements
- Data handling load
- Defining workstation requirements
- Data hosting and user locations
- Data storage and security
- Preliminary software selection
- Summarizing the function requirements
- Classifying system functions
- Interface and communication technologies
- Choosing a system interface
- Network communications
- Focus: Data capacity and data-transfer rates
- Client-server architectures
- General issues of network performance
- Distributed GIS and web services
- Determining system interface and communication requirements
- Platform sizing and bandwidth requirements
- User workflows
- Workflow technology choices
- Standard workflow baselines
- Custom workflows
- Case study: City of Rome system requirements
- Focus: Alternative system design strategies
- Other considerations
- Organization policies and standards
- Technology life cycles
- The preliminary design document
- Focus: Writing the preliminary design document
- Chapter 10 Consider benefit-cost, migration, and risk analysis
- Benefit-cost analysis and cost models
- Identify costs by year
- Focus: The cost model
- Calculate benefits by year
- Focus: The benefit approach
- Compare benefits and costs
- Calculate benefit-cost ratios
- Migration strategy
- Legacy systems and models
- New considerations
- Pilot projects
- Risk analysis
- Identify the risks
- Discuss the risks in context
- Describe ways to mitigate the risks
- Assess and score each risk
- Summarize the level of risk
- Chapter 11 Plan the implementation
- Anticipate the challenges of implementation
- Focus: Key issues to address in implementation planning
- Staffing and training
- Focus: GIS leadership teams: Establishing responsibilities
- GIS funding
- Organizational issues
- Institutional interaction
- Legal review
- Security issues
- Existing computing environment
- Risk analysis
- Alternative implementation strategies
- System procurement
- Focus: Request for proposal (RFP) outline
- Activity planning
- Focus: Selection criteria
- The final report
- Report components
- GIS management committee review and approval
- Merging the GIS plan with the overall business plan
- Implementation change
- Technology change
- Institutional change
- Managing change
- Start with an enterprise-wide plan
- Acquire technology
- Add information products
- Inform management about change
- Keep your plan current
- Communication
- Appendix A GIS staff, job descriptions, and training
- Appendix B Benchmark testing
- Appendix C Network design planning factors
- Appendix D Custom workflows
- Appendix E City of Rome system architecture design alternatives
- Lexicon
- Acronyms
- Further reading
- Index
