GIS Archive

Facts About “Geomatics” on Internet

If you’re new here, may be you’d like to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thank you for visiting !Geomatics is not another strange word, i believe. It is just a common word on the internet as the widest jungle. I've been wondering how (well) internet knows about this word 'geomatics' couple months a go, [...]

GIS Design Approaches

As a system, GIS design could be done by using some approaches. These approaches come from a view of how the GIS data are managed on a certain GIS. GIS data contains at least two kinds of data: the spatial data and the non-spatial attribute data. How to manage them such as store, maintain, integrate [...]

GIS Components

Geographic Information System (GIS) is a system that comprises several sub systems. Each sub system works as a system of its own as well. Each sub system or component has its own routines or code of conduct. Failure on one sub system or component will influence the entire performance of the system (GIS). So, to [...]

ILWIS 3.4 Goes Open Source

As an open source software user, I’m so glad to find out that more and more software and organizations support open source initiative. ‘My excitement goes from the top of some place very high’ (taken from dialogue in Cars –the movie- said by Luigi The Italian Car, an animation movie of Pixar Studio) whenever I [...]

Say It With Map

I just realized on this topic when i remember on one wise words suggesting to 'say it with flower' to show our feeling to somebody. On GIS, we can use this wise words too, but not to show feeling to someone, but to show places or directions. We can show people about places or directions [...]

As start, here i put some introduction from "the Father of GIS" -Mr. Stan Aronoff, in his book: Geographic Information systems: A Management Perspective (WDL Publication:1989). Of course it's not the only book to say about GIS, there are so many others. May be some of you have known very well with this book since [...]

GIS and People

People nowadays saying about GIS for Geogrephic Information System. GIS term spreads worlwide. More and more people getting familiar with GIS term. Even in Indonesia, my country, my oldest son -10 years old in class 4 of the elementary school- has a lesson at school about this GIS. Well, it seems that my child will [...]