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    2.02 Digital Mapping' and Manual Mapping' Compared

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    Digital mapping provides several advantages over manual mapping according to a comparison matrix. Digital mapping allows for better workflow, higher quality information for decision making, better integration across departments, quicker access to information, and more efficient information dissemination. It can lead to possible cost reduction and cost effectiveness. Some key benefits of digital mapping identified are more efficient storage in a digital database, quick retrieval of information, automatic updating, faster spatial analysis, and easier display preparation. Integration of data from multiple sources is also more easily achieved through the use of geographic coordinates in a GIS system.

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    Digital mapping provides several advantages over manual mapping according to a comparison matrix. Digital mapping allows for better workflow, higher quality information for decision making, better integration across departments, quicker access to information, and more efficient information dissemination. It can lead to possible cost reduction and cost effectiveness. Some key benefits of digital mapping identified are more efficient storage in a digital database, quick retrieval of information, automatic updating, faster spatial analysis, and easier display preparation. Integration of data from multiple sources is also more easily achieved through the use of geographic coordinates in a GIS system.

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    Digital mapping provides several advantages over manual mapping according to a comparison matrix. Digital mapping allows for better workflow, higher quality information for decision making, better integration across departments, quicker access to information, and more efficient information dissemination. It can lead to possible cost reduction and cost effectiveness. Some key benefits of digital mapping identified are more efficient storage in a digital database, quick retrieval of information, automatic updating, faster spatial analysis, and easier display preparation. Integration of data from multiple sources is also more easily achieved through the use of geographic coordinates in a GIS system.

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    2.02 Digital Mapping' and Manual Mapping' Compared

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    Digital mapping provides several advantages over manual mapping according to a comparison matrix. Digital mapping allows for better workflow, higher quality information for decision making, better integration across departments, quicker access to information, and more efficient information dissemination. It can lead to possible cost reduction and cost effectiveness. Some key benefits of digital mapping identified are more efficient storage in a digital database, quick retrieval of information, automatic updating, faster spatial analysis, and easier display preparation. Integration of data from multiple sources is also more easily achieved through the use of geographic coordinates in a GIS system.

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    G I S C O O K B O O K F O R L G U S

    2.02 ‘Digital Mapping’ and ‘Manual Mapping’ Compared


    The use of GIS enables:

    better work flow;


    higher quality information for decision-making;
    better integration among different offices / departments;
    quicker access to information;
    more efficient information dissemination.

    All these lead to possible cost reduction and cost effectiveness.

    The following matrix is a comparison of digital and manual mapping with respect to
    key activities:

    ACTIVITIES: DIGITAL MAPPING PAPER MAPPING

    PREPARATION Initial version tedious to Start from scratch every


    prepare but quick and time
    efficient to monitor

    STORAGE Digital Database Different scales on


    Standardized and integrated, different standards,
    compact memory capacity voluminous and bulky

    RETRIEVAL Quick retrieval Paper maps and tables

    UPDATING Automatic search and Manual check and


    replace by computer revision

    OVERLAY Systematically done Expensive and time


    Faster integration of consuming
    complex, multiple spatial and
    non spatial data sets

    SPATIAL ANALYSIS Faster Time and energy


    consuming, slow

    DISPLAY Easier and faster to prepare Slow


    Better quality Tedious and time-
    consuming

    The computer has revolutionized the ways of communicating and analyzing


    information about the world, including decision-making. Geographic Information
    Technology (GIT) is now widely used for computer-assisted management and
    analysis of data concerning geographically related features.

    2.02 ‘Digital Mapping’ and ‘Manual Mapping’ Compared 33


    G I S C O O K B O O K F O R L G U S

    GIS transforms data into timely information. It is capable of sorting out information and
    separating them into different layers, as well as combining them with other layers of
    information, according to the needs of the specific user. The information is stored in
    the computer in such a way that geographic data can be combined according to the
    needs of the specific user.

    Integration Benefits
    One remarkable facility of GIS is that it enables the coordinated use of data from
    many sources. This integrative ability is made possible by the geographic link through
    the defined coordinates in the geodetic reference system. The coordinated and
    integrated information exchange between a number of systems where the same basic
    data are used by many users for staff work, planning, decision making, information
    dissemination etc. is very cost-effective.

    Information Availability
    Using GIS requires a completely different and more systematic way of information
    management in order to make the information available. Disseminating information
    through GIS, makes it accessible to users, and enables transparency in governance
    for the municipality/city. GIS makes it possible to publish geographic and other data
    and distribute this data digitally in an instructive, easy and interactive manner.

    2.02 ‘Digital Mapping’ and ‘Manual Mapping’ Compared 34

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