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GIS
for Social
Mapping
Mapping
Projects
Social
Maps
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What is GIS?
What is the relevance of GIS for Social Planning?
How can I use GIS?
What is GIS?
In the strictest sense, GIS is a computer system capable
of assembling, storing, manipulating, and relating a number of varying
information to produce a meaningful display of their interaction in a
map-like form. Typically GIS relates spatial data to data from any other
source.
What is
the Relevance of GIS for Social Planning?
GIS for social mapping is a powerful decision
making tool that merges geographical information with social data in order
to provide answers to your questions, for example:
- What area in Ottawa has the highest incidence
of poverty?
- How does homelessness affect the different neighborhoods
of Ottawa?
- What are rental costs like in the different neighborhoods
of Ottawa?
- How is municipal capital spending distributed
across the city?
- Where in the city are your clients concentrated?
By answering these and other questions, GIS Social
Mapping lends itself to a wide range of applications including social
planning, real state development, funding allocation, marketing strategy,
and so on. The output maps facilitate collective decision making because
they synthetize and integrate information from different sources and thus
enable decision makers to more accurately assess implications of their
decisions.
How can I use GIS?
The Social Planning Council offers social mapping
services to its clients. Bring us your data or tell us what issues concern
you and we will produce social maps
for you. We will show you "Where on earth is it?". whether "it"
is a thing, a concept, an idea, a direction or a trend.
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