GIS

you mean something like this: www.ceaser-web.com

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i would like youto talk more on the gis stuff i did aprogramme on it too like arcview, idrisi, arcinfo i learnt thhe latest sofware now is arcgis 9.2 do yuo know anything about it?

Ya its the latest and i was made to undertsand that it has a lot of cool features the d old one doesn't, like real time tracking, and easier interface, also support vb.net, i have not fully explore it though i a praying for time to do that, what is your experine with the rest tools?? i'll love to knw more

i haveused gis considrably esp arview altdu due tolack of awrnees on plls part i have not one musch with4 some time and no acces to good maps in tend to get th arcgis softwar e any help and any project towor k on tostimulate me?

try www.ceaser-web.com

whats our business with Norway -omo Naija la wa o.

whats our business with Norway -omo Naija la wa o.

  @simply_me, but you say your location is Cambodia

Hi,
If i may add, GIS can be defined as a computer based information system that is capable of capturing, analysing, updating, integrating information about existing soil map or information that are spatially referenced to the locations on the Earth surface. Software used in GIS include Atlas GIS, Map Info e.t.c

Financial institutions like MasterCard are championing the use of visual technologies like online interactive map to provide information in a refreshing and effective manner to their customers. I came across Mastercard’s ATM locator on http://www.mastercard.com/us/personal/en/cardholderservices/atmlocations/index.html and i could not help but smile at the ingenuity of using map to provide information. Rather than using the boring row and column branch or ATM locator like one finds on Zenith's websites as well as the websites of other banks, MasterCard used an online interactive map. Why? Because geography is an important decision for the customer in the choice of  ATMs or banking halls.

The picture below illustrates the ease of generating a driving route from Adeniyi Jones (Ikeja) to Access Bank -Simbiat Abiola Rd (Ikeja) using mapntl.com. It even provides information regarding the onsite ATM. Actually driving direction can be generated on MapNTL.com to any of the over 524 Bank branches and ATMs, 2,424 restaurants, 2,580 hotels/Motels, 2,451 schools, 2,370 open markets,  982 shopping malls/complexes, 5,764 major offices, 1,267 petrol stations, 3,358 churches, 1,837 mosques, 478 Estates all within Lagos alone.
MapNTL.com was built using GIS and location based technologies by some Nigerian GIS experts who graduated from Unilag

Companies like Spatial Technologies Ltd are drawing attention to how banks and other financial insititions can benefit from geographic intelligence. Geographic intelligence is the practical use of geographic information for business advantage. Whether enabling resource efficiencies, streamlining operations, facilitating joined-up working or informing strategy.

@ Ireti - are you the same Ireti that used to work for MTN? If you are, I was one of the guys in Maryland speaking to you about some GIS related "stuff".

Hi tee
I have aot of experince in GIS we are reseller for ESRI
my company i worked for are the ESRI reseller for Nigeria
And if u have any thing feel free to ask
cause we have been on ground for about 18yrs doing jobs for all OIL and GAS companies in Nigeria and Governament agencies
so what bothering in GIS ?

Wallie:

@ Ireti - are you the same Ireti that used to work for MTN? If you are, I was one of the guys in Maryland speaking to you about some GIS related "stuff".

Hi Wallie, nice reading from you. I left MTN around April last year, am now in UK. Have you used MapNTL.com yet? I am actually interested in knowing what you think of it. I welcome constructive comments, as a matter of fact, we offer N3,000 shopping voucher at Shoprite for positive suggestions on how to improve it.

Its good to know you still have a passion for GIS. Keep it up.

I heard that NCC is thinking of implementing a system to trace emergency or distress calls.  It is good that NCC is championing this initiative, but they should realise that using Triangulation of 3 GSM cell sites to pin-point the exact location of the distress call will not work as this technique can only provide an accuracy of not more than 5m. This is not good enough as quick response and the ability to pin-point the exact location of the call could mean the difference between life and death for the person in distress. Without accurate maps, the success of the centres to track distress calls will have a dependency on the ability of the distress caller to provide his/her exact location and lets face it, how many people are able to calmly provide that information in the face of an emergency?

I live in UK and I know that most technologies deployed to track distress calls in UK run on accurate maps and the ability to interpret Zip Codes. Ambulances, fire fighters, police, paramedics, etc all depend on location based technologies for their operations.
I have taken the liberty to include here a link to Ordnance Survey’s website (http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/business/sectors/emergencyservices/) to underscore the role that accurate city maps can play in achieving this. Ordnance Survey(OS) -UK National Mapping Agency has the map of every single road, house, street light poles, even zebra crossings covering the entire UK. Ordnance Survey’s mapping database contains over 450million features that are updated almost every week. OS' mapping data underpins over £100billion worth of business investments annually. Banks in UK depend heavily on it, insurance companies, retail companies like Tesco, ASDA, Sainsbury, etc all depend on it to make informed business and technical decisions. 

Now compare that with Federal Survey under the Federal Ministry of Works in Nigeria that is suppose to be the equivalent of Ordnance Survey. Take a walk to its office at Onikan (Lagos Island) and see if they have the most current map of even Onikan where their office is located!!! Federal survey attempted to digitize 1:50,000 maps that were produced before our independence. This project started several years ago, right now nobody knows what is happening about it!! They made so much noise about Nigeria SAT1 as the panacea of our mapping problems, yet there has not been any serious attempt to map the country at a national scale using even the 32m resolution satellite from Nigeria SAT1 -then what are we talking about??

How can these proposed emergency centers ever succeed without having accurate maps? A lot of those cities where these centers are to be sited were last mapped around 1960!!! I will rather suggest that NCC should put the frame work in place first before talking big about setting up emergency centers. Let them produce high scale maps and build a National Data Insfrascture (NDI)
Spatial Technologies Ltd is like most private mapping companies is seriously investing in building mapping database, and we have MapNTL.com to show for our effort and expertise where people can generate driving routes fromn point A to point B even at street level in Lagos. The Government needs to see the strategic role that accurate map plays in national planning and provide the frame work for this.

A Geographic information system(GIS) is a computer system used for capturing,storing,analyzing and querying geographically referenced data.
This geographically referenced data separates a GIS from other data information systems.To fully understand the nature of geographically referenced data
take an example of a road to properly describe a road we refer to its location i.e where it is and its characteristics e.g its length,name and direction.It's location is called the geometry or shape and is the basis for the geographical reference and is also known as spatial data whereas its characteristics are refered to as attribute data .Hece a road like any other geographically referenced data has these two components.

A GIS requires the following components to wrk with geographically referenced data:

A Computer system: On which the GIS software is installed

GIS Software:the program and user interface used to manipulate geographically referenced data

Brainware: Refers to the purpose and objectives that justify the use of GIS

Infrastructure: Refers to the necessary physical organizational,Administrative and cultural enviroments that support GIS operations


NB: This was culled from the last GIS seminar/Training workshop held by a Iconsults an IT firm for more info on this remarkable program where u have hands on and practical training using GIS software such as ARCEXPLORER and ARCVIEW 3.0 and 9.2 pls contact the coordinator on this no 08053779782

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hunter777:

nice to know there are people who appreciate the value and uses of maps and GIS, i realised the importance of GIS when i used it when writing my final year project in school.From the satellite imagery of IFAKO/IJAIYE LGA,i was able to locate all d houses (uncompleted nd completed) and calculate the nearest neighbour characteristics, i used arcview 3.3 back then, i'll like to know which of the GIS softwares is better.MAPINFO,ARCVIEW,ARCGIS,
Can someone please suggest a good school to study for an MSc GIS in the UK??

Well as a GIS professional with over 9years hands-on experience, i really don't advocate for a particular mapping software. I have used Arcview for several years and when i joined MTN in 2002, i discovered that they use only MapInfo so i had to switch. As a matter of fact, I had to learn MapInfo on my own for a couple of years then i went for a couple of MapInfo trainings in UK and US. As far as am concerned, there is nothing like the best GIS software. A GIS software is a tool to accomplish a purpose. Its like asking what is the best pen, Bic or Eleganza? as long as the pen writes well, i really don't care where it comes from. I  always tell people that it really does not matter what mapping application you use. There are 4 fundermental tasks that any mapping application must meet.

1) Does it take inputs and in what format?
2) Does it allow spatial analysis, e.g thematic mapping, buffer, spatial query (e.g intersect, contains, entirely within, etc), overlaying,  ability to switch from one projection to the other, etc?
3) Does it align with the "Open Source" standards, i.e. can it read or be read by other industry standard formats like .SHP. TAB. GML, XMI, KML, etc?
4) Does it produce outputs and in what format?

If an application meets all these criteria, all you ask yourself is how does it do them? Some take only one click to accomplish a task, others take more to accomlish the same task
So my advice is that if you feel comfortable with Arcview, then go on and use  it,  if you prefer MapInfo thats fine. They all accomplish the same thing albeit in different ways. I have used my experience to develop MapNTL.com and www.spatialtechnologiesltd.com

University of Edinbugh in Scotland is really great for MSC in GIS. I know of someone that did his MSC in GIS there and from what he told me he really enjoyed it.

Hope the above is useful?

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hunter777:

since u're in d UK,cld u help me do a background check on GIS at d University of Portsmouth your assistance will go a long way, I still find it hard to believethat MTN nd other Telecomm operators do not have a dedicated GIS Dept

Hunter, MTN is the only operator that has dedicated GIS specialists. Glo does not even know what GIS is all about, thnaks to their design and build agreeement with Alcatel. Celtel on the other hand is just scratching the surface of GIS, infact i saw their national coverage sometime ago and i was almost rolling on the floor with laughter at the choice of cartographic colors used. MTN has about 2 GIS specialists, each armed with Master in GIS. You will be suprised at some of the stuff these guys are doing with MapInfo. At MTN, GIS Specialists are not the only ones using MapInfo, their RF Optimization Technical Specialists are all advanced MapInfo users. They have perfected the use of GIS for Network capacity planning, network dimensioning, forcast, Network statistics monitoring, cell down monitoring, etc.  Here is a link to an article that i wrote and published in 2005 documenting just one practical application of GIS in Network Monitoring at MTN  (http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2030)

I am sure you can get most of the information you require from the Internet if you did a search on the University of Portsmouth's program on GIS.

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hunter777:

What's the market like(in terms of getting a good job) in the UK after studying for a Masters degree in GIS
Thanks a lot man

Well GIS is like any other IT field in UK, what u see is what you get. The only advantage in Uk is that GIS underpins a lot of decisions that several companies make. Having said that, i must quickly add that there is a good market for GIS programmers. This is becuase most companies are always looking for ways to customised some of the "off the shelve" GIS softwares. GIS technicians are the least paid guys. When i say GIS Technicans i meant people who are only used for digitizing, field data gathering, data entry experts, etc. The going rate for a GIS Technician is about 10-12 pounds an hour. The highest paid guys are the GIS programmers; some of them collect about 30-35 pounds an hour. The GIS Specialists and the GIS database adminsitrators are middle earners. They collect 20-30 pounds an hour. So i will suggest that you arm yourself with a very good knowledge of VB or Java and how it applies to the geospatial industry. There is a lot of competition from indians and people from Eastern Europe. These guys are really experienced geo-spatial specialists, most often than not, they are willing to under price themsleves just to get into the system.

I hope the above is useful.

@ iretia
Thanks a lot man

Hi, all
can any one please assist me with ESRI MapObjects. I need it to develop an application in vb

Hi,
Could someone assist me with ESRI Mapobjects. I need it to develop a GIS Application in VB

Chef:

Hi,
Could someone assist me with ESRI Mapobjects. I need it to develop a GIS Application in VB

Chef, if you need MapObject, then i'll advice that you go to ESRI's website and buy a license.

@Iretia,
I just want to seek your professional advice on how GIS cold be used in managing crime in Nigeria? And how your company cold help in achieving that.

Thanks.

@ Joomlaman, Our company, GIS Ltd has just completed a GIS for Crime Mapping project in Mushin LGA of Lagos. The project was facilitated and funded by a non-governmental organization with support from international donors. You may contact me at lekeadeniji@gisng.com for details on GIS for Public Safety.