Framework of basic conditions and guidelines for the establishment of a national resource and environmental geographic information system
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United Nations. Economic and Social Council;United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa;
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GIS has become the new creed for all those who deal, in one way or another, with land resource development, environment protection and all other activities related to land occurrences. This phenomena, is, to a great extent, a result of the power of these systems to cope with increasing amounts of spatial information of different type and its ability and flexibility to process and display the data according to different uses and planning scenarios. It can also be misleading to those who want a GIS to solve all their problems. Some planners may feel that GIS must be introduced at any cost and without delay in their operations, without fully understanding all the implications of establishing a GIS, mush less the kind of GIS that is suitable to them. Surrounded by an overwhelming amount of GIS-promoted software available, ranging from complex and expensive to the simpler and the cheap, many organizations are tempted to purchase one particular software and begin collecting digital data, often on ad-hoc basis, in the belief that they are establishing the GIS they need. Within a region, a country, a municipality or even within an institution, a proliferation of ill-suited GISs will most likely result in nothing more than a lamentable waste of resources.
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“United Nations. Economic and Social Council; United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa (1996-09). Framework of basic conditions and guidelines for the establishment of a national resource and environmental geographic information system. UN. ECA Regional Cartographic Conference for Africa (9th : 1996, Nov. 11- 15 : Addis Ababa, Ethiopia). Addis Ababa :. © UN. ECA,. https://hdl.handle.net/10855/14806”Conference
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