Early enterprise Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) projects often began as an expensive, tedious and labor intensive data capture exercise. Many of these issues were exacerbated by conventional GISs that treated spatial data in very much the same way as plain attribute data ignoring the subtle peculiarities of the geographic world.
Businesses that used GISs built on traditional short transaction1 access found that this approach slowed the data capture process resulting in missed milestones and increased costs. Unfortunately for the customer, these problems often did not end there: the short transaction model, stated simply, did not support many of the spatially-enabled business processes that enterprises demanded of their GIS installations.
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GIS Weekly Magazine
Susan Smith
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