Advantages of Geographical Information System (GIS)
Advantage of Geographical Information System GIS is very advantageous system/tool especially in geographic location based studies and planning. GIS is an integration of many system and methods that make GIS advantageous over the traditional process of geospatial data creation, analysis and display. GIS has several advantages over the other systems such computer aided design and drawing (CADD), automated mapping (AM) etc. Below are advantages over other systems Advantage over Tradition Maps (Printed Maps) Traditional Maps have to be printed and in relatively large formats. Although maps can be compiled into an Atlas but they are not seamless and one has to compare one page of Atlas with another. All the maps have to be printed at fixed scales. Maps cannot provide all the annotation details in the legend with respect to shading and place names. Maps always have a scale bar, even though it is still not easy to calculate the lengths of features represented on the map a