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Geographic Information Systems (GIS)Simply put, a GIS combines layers of information about a place to give you a better understanding of that place. What layers of information you combine depends on your purpose—finding the best location for a new store, analyzing environmental damage, viewing similar crimes in a city to detect a pattern, and so on. GIS has four ingredients: hardware, software, data, and people and training.
Timely, accurate information easily accessed and capable of being shared across local, state and federal, political jurisdictions is fundamental to the decision-making capability of those tasked with the governance and management. GIS is a tool that provides critical information across a range of agencies (e.g. public works, emergency response, and health agencies). GIS has many strengths among them are the fact that a wide variety of information can be intuitively graphically displayed for users, and manipulated for a number of different uses. GIS is an effective tool for risk assessment and planning, using the same datasets
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