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Input of GIS Data

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Environmental Geoinformatics

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Precisely because of the expensive cost of GIS data capture and the fact that the procedures involved in this are also fairly time consuming, the sources for GIS data should always be carefully analyzed before selection in order to suit specific GIS application(s). There are many possible sources for GIS data available today. The criteria for assessing the most appropriate sources for GIS data include firstly, collecting only the necessary data and secondly, for cost effectiveness, accepting the minimum data quality that will get the specific GIS job to be successfully accomplished. Moreover, where geospatial data needs to be integrated, it is important that the various sources be critically examined for compatibility.

“Effective GIS applications have little to do with data and everything to do with understanding, creativity and perspective.”

(GeoWorld, Aug. 1996)

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Spatial Sciences, Curtin University of Technology, P.O. Box U1987, Perth, WA, 6845, Australia

    Joseph L. Awange

  2. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Joseph L. Awange

  3. Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Joseph L. Awange

  4. School of Environment, Maseno University, Kisumu, Kenya

    Joseph L. Awange

  5. Geospatial and Space Technology, University of Nairobi, Harry Thuku Way, Nairobi, 30197, Kenya

    John B. Kyalo Kiema

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Awange, J.L., Kyalo Kiema, J.B. (2013). Input of GIS Data. In: Environmental Geoinformatics. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34085-7_15

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