Imtiaz Ahmed is currently an undergraduate at The London School of Economics in England. Imtiaz Ahmed expects to graduate in Management Sciences in June 2000. After graduation, he plans to work in the information technology (IT) field, and to become an IT consultant.
What is a geographic information system (GIS)? Discuss the main issues that need to be addressed by designers when implementing a GIS in organisations. If you read this paper, you will know. Paper does a very good job of covering issues that must be addressed by designers of a GIS (discussion starts on page 5). Since the issues that must be addressed by a GIS designer are very similar to issues that must be addressed by designers of any major software system, the section GIS Design and Implementation Considerations is highly recommended reading, for anyone involved in a major software development project.