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"Geographic Information Systems: A Primer for the Facilities Manager"
Author: Grupe, Fritz H. and John G. Burch
Published In: Facilities Manager
Date: Spring 1993

Describes geographic information systems (GIS) and how facilities managers can use these for applications such as landscape and plant management, hazardous materials inventory, crime reduction, and space utlization studies, among others. Compares GIS to traditional maps, identifies how GIS integrates spatially reference data in a problem solving situation, and discusses its benefits and problems. Covers GIS and automated mapping, facilities planning, maintenance forecasing, vehicle tracking, and incident tracking. Extensive references offer resources on topic.

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