GIS or
Geographical Information System as it is called is fast getting popularized in infinite number of
applications. Though the concept has been there long ago, large no of
Companies/Corporates are finding more and more useful applications of this system in its own field thereby increasing their productivity.
GIS is capable of integrating, storing, editing, analyzing, sharing, and displaying geographically referenced information. Cellular Companies use terrain based GIS data to interpolate coverage of a tower if installed in a particular
location to ascertain whether a decent percentage of population would be addressed. It also finds use in Military
Application. Location based services have its conception from the idea of GIS whereby we could actually make out how far we are from a petrol bunk for instance. Marketing priorities on the basis of locations of maximum penetration of a particular
product in a specified geographical area actually is the trend used by companies selling FMCG, to airtime, to anything at all. Parent companies could actually track their dealer efficiency and plan for corrective actions to market their product better.
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Many software tools are available for analysing GIS data currently, the popular ones being Mapinfo, ArcGIS, Google Earth, etc.
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