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    Geographic Information System (GIS) is a system that allows capturing, storing, checking, integrating, manipulating, analysing and displaying data which is spatially referenced to the earth (DoE, 1987). GIS is made up of two types of data, spatial data and attribute data. Spatial data refers to all types of data objects that represent geographical space; it allows locating anything in the world. Attribute data is the additional information about a spatial feature. GIS is a very powerful system…

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    paper, because it will enable me to find out how Management Information System professionals interact in a company on daily basis. My professor, classmates, and other faculty members on the LLD 100A portfolio group are my audiences for this paper. A discourse community is a group of people who share the same interest, career, or other commonality. Since I am majoring in Business Administration and concentrating in Management Information Systems (MIS), I am excited to join the MIS discourse…

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    flows can be designed and operated to provide maximum operational efficiency. Understanding the changing external factors and their organizations more efficient business processes can provide continuous improve their management. In recent times the information technologies become increasingly important factor for organizations both in terms point of the outer and from the viewpoint of the internal environment level their application in the management of business processes can contribute to rapid…

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    a clear report of the archeological site and any finds that lead from that. The techniques include but are not limited to, looking at historic maps, aerial photography, LiDAR, analytical survey, field walking and geophysics and Geographical Information System (GIS). All of these techniques are useful to an archeologist however, they all have varying degrees of expense, financially, in manpower and…

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    Mays Business Ethics

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    Mays Business school at Texas A&M University I’ve learned so much about society, love, relationships, but also global issues and how they effect my peers as well as myself. Mays Business students majoring in marketing, management, management information system (MIS), and finance can make an impact and possible reduce the issue or even solve it completely. Marketing is a major known for advertising, allowing the company to get their name across and build a good reputation to boost business.…

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    TransCanada uses GIS for data management, mapping, geospatial analysis, and sharing the data through the company standard GIS web mapping application. Some of the technical specifications and standards for TransCanada is ensuring data integrity. It is one of TransCanada’s mission to provide quality geospatial products and services to Operations and Engineering. A set of quality standards and technical specification has been established in order to ensure the data meets the required accuracy for…

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    1998) and surveys are commonly used for obtaining vast amounts of data in computer format, and this can be seen as one of the benefits of GIS (Maguire., 1991). GIS has the ability to take these sources of data and manipulate it to become vital information. Also, the advantages of using remote sensing as a data source can depict the changes of land use by observing the current and archived remote sensed data (Mustafa et al.,…

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    As a new member of the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, I have been assigned to do a GPS survey and a GIS analysis of the Kennedy Valley Trail (Sam Rayson Valley Trail) for the purpose of the development of the trail as there are no amenities in the trail. To get a general idea of how things are placed in a trail, I did a pre-survey on the trail west of Kennedy Rd. (Etobicoke Creek Trail) and found that it was quite undeveloped as well. Below is the data of how many light posts there…

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    current imagery needs of Soldiers at the tactical level are not being met with the current systems used by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). We have been working very closely with Digital globe and their EVWHS service and have found that their system is superior in every way to the NGA systems. The problem with other existing systems for obtaining imagery are centered on ease of access, system updates and site navigation. When existing imagery is too difficult to obtain for…

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    from the system, there could be concerns for cost allocation with the different treatments. If any mistakes are made while entering the data, it could lead to miscalculations concerning different treatment cost. While a misallocation of costs could occur in paying the providers who provide the treatments as well. The suppliers or providers may not get paid in time or the correct amount of money. Consequently, there might be a potential risk that they might refuse to work…

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