1 1 GIS Geographic Information Systems John H. Vande Vate Spring, 2001 2 2 What it is... Software and data to manage location information Visualizing and managing Customer relations Physical Assets Smart Maps Visualize and compute with geographic data 3 3 Types of Data Points Customer locations Facility locations Lines Streets Rivers Railroad lines Polygons Lakes Geographic boundaries 4 4 At Strategic Level Sometimes combine to single commodity Example: Ford Service Parts We used an average product Did not consider individual parts Danger for 1-to-Many Different dimensions of product Size Weight Cost/Value Service requirements 5 5 Features Geographic objects like Points lines planes Themes Depictions of data associated with these 6 6 Applications Routing Managing Sales Territories Conservations Tracking Assets Store location Taxes... 7 7 With Excel