ADVANTAGES & DISADVANTAGES OF GIS

ADVANTAGES & DISADVANTAGES OF GIS

ADVANTAGES OF GIS

• GIS technology has the capability of improving organizational integration. This technology can be integrated with software, hardware, and also data in order to capture, analyze, manage, and display all information geographically referenced.
• This technology allows viewing, questioning, generating query, understanding, visualizing and interpretation of the data into different ways which will help in the reveal relationships, trends, and patterns in the form of graphs, globes, maps, charts, tables and reports.
• It will be most helpful for solving problems throughout looking at the data in a way which is easily and quickly shared.
• GIS technology provides very accurate data.
• Using this technology we can able to better predictions and analysis.
• It will help to take better decisions made by government authorities.
• Improve decision making with the help of layered by layered information in the software.
• With the help of GIS, we can easily identify communities that is under risk or lacking infrastructure.
• It will also help in identifying criminology matters.
• Better management of natural resources of the country.
• Better communication during any critical emergency situation.
• We can able to save cost because of a better decisions.

DISADVANTAGES OF GIS

• This technology might be considered as expensive because of specialized computer equipment and software.
• GIS data are very expensive than traditional data.
• Collecting the data can be very time-consuming.
• Privacy and security issues can sometimes limit distribution of data.
• GIS data may also be subjects misuse or misinterpretation.
• Learning time on GIS the software can be very long.
• GIS shows spatial relationships but does not necessarily provide absolute solutions for them.
• Integration with traditional maps is difficult in GIS.
• It requires efficient processor and higher storage space.

  NOTES: In short, we can say that there is a real fact that GIS technology has the capability to offer both advantages and disadvantages to everybody. From the above-mentioned points, we can conclude that there is still great potential if GIS technology is used apart from the idea of some disadvantages and in this generation, the use of GIS technology is a great opportunity to experience its best way.