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| Subject: | GISList: Sum: How does GIS add value? |
| Date: |
05/09/2002 09:23:41 AM |
| From: |
Michael_L._Schonlau .. nexterna.com |
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Here are some responses I received. Thank you to everyone for your
feedback.
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Mike,
I work for a county health department and we use GIS for everthing from
disease surveillance to septic/well permitting to bioterrorism preparation.
Simply put, our GIS system allows our staff to be more informed and to do
more in less time. It's often hard to put a dollar amount on the success
of
GIS. There should be a saying out there: Cost of arcview...cost of
employee...benefit of successful GIS: priceless.
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You dont need to answer that question. Just invite all the major vendors'
sales reps to come by to your meeting meeting and have them explain it. I
am sure your meeting attendees will be mesmerized.
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Michael,
You might find a copy of the book "Beyond Maps: GIS and Decision
Making in Local Governement" by John O'Looney. I've used it as a
reference for formal wording to answer that question. It's got plenty of
good information regarding the issues involved.
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Hello Mike,
I work with GIS since 1992 (so I am not dinosaur nor naive about it).
The real value added to a business by GIS happens whenever it becames an
enterprise solution. The whole company must be using it so they can share
information that you are not able to gather from a straight text list of
numbers and words. The visual power allied to our capability of congnition
optimizes the use of resources, crews, marketing efforts, market
distribution, infra-structure, cost analysis, and allows us to save some
expend (with a not tagible value).
For instance, suppose you are able to study a region and save from building
a Radio Base Station. How many thousands would you save ?
Suppose you can optimize the garbage collection in a city. There is not
only
the amount you save in gas, you have to think about the crew and the truck
savings. But all this is the straight use of GIS.
There are some plannig and analysis possibilities that only make sense if
more than one department of the organization uses the GIS. The cross
information allows you to observe the effects of the use of some material
in
your distribution network (suppose you work for a Power Company like
myself,
or Telecom or Gas). If you compare the kind of material to where they are
installed and all the maintenance information, you will be able to select
the equipment partners that have the best performance. (Sample.: What is
the
effect of using a specific kind of material near the beach ?)
You can evaluate the results of the students per Public School and check
with public transportation and the food it distributes for the Children.
You
can also check on security associated with the results and check out if
there are many kids without assistance.
Well Mike, I am not sure if I could help you, but I have many ideas about
using GIS and I have seen also a lot of good experiences using it. It is
just a matter of start using it. I know noone who stop using it.
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Michael Schonlau
Engineer
(402) 926-5831
Nexterna, Inc.
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