Why use GIS in government

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Why use GIS in government?

• Promote Efficiency
• Promote Equality
• Promote Community Viability
• Promote Environmental Quality

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Promote efficiency

• Interdependence of actions
• Early identification of problems

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Promote equality

• Identify unequal treatment
• Examine patterns of service delivery
• Allow greater access to decision making tools
• Democratization of information
• Easily demonstrate alternative scenarios

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Promote community viability

• Thinking long term
• Encourage regional solutions
• Analyzing the impact of actions on adjacent areas

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Promote environmental quality

• Sustainability
• Using maps to explain complex relationships

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GIS capabilities or components

• Statistical analysisSpatial analysisNetwork
  analysisCADAM/FMGeocodingGPSDatabaseExpert
  systems rule based