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Here in our local city London, ON many road improvements are being made to reduce delays in traffic. Two recent projects being the widening of Hyde Park Rd and Southdale Rd West. Their is also improvements in technology that help us cope with our roads. These resources are AM 980 News, Beat the traffic app, and Navigator GPS that all help us stay aware of the local traffic forecasts. Omar Youssef
http://globalnews.ca/london/traffic/

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Cover is a designing company uses GIS to design custom  homes cheaper than I phone 

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The company uses GIS and zoning data from the city to get a better understanding of the building constraints on a specific site, like setbacks and maximum heights. Which allowed the company to offer cheaper service and luxury architect for far less than other companies.
Abeer Rkie
https://www.fastcodesign.com/90108816/this-company-designs-custom-homes-for-less-than-an-iphone

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GIS is being used in mapping and statistics to show the geographic differences around the world gender inequality, imprisonment, happiness, income, hunger, disease, and many more. Allows allocation of resources better to areas of need.

R. Patel

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Local governments use GIS tech to maximize their incomes. Information gathered by one department can be used by other departments eliminating time and money spent on R&D, and as such results in more tax dollars left for other departments.
M. Dunbar

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GIS allows for wetland mapping and is used in design projects for conservation of the wetlands .With the use of GIS there is the capability of creating a wetland digital databank.

B. Fountain

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GIS for Federal Emergency Management Agency

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GIS for Federal Emergency Management Agency

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Federal Emergency Management Agency uses the flood zone determination GIS technology. By using this technology it can help us to predict floods and drastically save lives.  With more efficient processes in place and using a comprehensive set of GIS spatial layers, a company can maintain a high flood zone automation rate. Using GIS software Geo processing technologies and tools in industry streamlines workflow and can allow companies to load the digital flood data into enterprise level flood database.
B. Jain.

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BLOG VIEW: We know that flooding is a major natural disaster that affects many parts of the world, including developed countries such as the U.S. It causes billions of dollars in infrastructure and property damage, as well as loss of life for hundreds each year.

According to Consumer Compliance Outlook, Hurricane Irene alone was estimated to have caused between $7 billion and $10 billion in losses. Hurricane Katrina resulted in claim payments of $16.2 billion from the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), ranking it the most expensive flood since the NFIP's inception in 1968.

Using technology can help predict flooding and potentially save lives and money. The key is to actually use it.

Despite the overwhelming effects flooding has on people and resources around the world, the process of determining if an area is at risk of flooding is manual in many areas. Currently, flood studies are available only as paper documents for several areas around the country.

To respond to a request to determine if a property is located in an area prone to flooding - and if it meets the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) floodplain management requirements - legal descriptions are used to locate the parcel on an appropriate study, and pertinent information is collected. This process is tedious, lengthy and, not to mention, wastes staff time. It has all of the limitations of paper-based media in terms of archiving, organizing and searching flood studies.

Sometimes, flood studies are divided into parts and represented in several drawings. That's right - drawings. It is inconvenient to combine these paper drawings so that the whole picture can be seen. It is also challenging to view these studies in conjunction with other data.

This is a long, painstaking, manual process. To use these studies more effectively, FEMA decided to convert them from paper to a digital format so the flood industry could find the information more quickly and to make flood studies accessible to a wider audience. They can now be seamlessly analyzed and explored in the context of other relevant data.

Geographic information systems (GIS) were an obvious answer. GIS technology is successfully used to visualize the extent of flooding and also to analyze the flood maps to produce flood damage estimation maps and flood risk maps. Flood inundation maps are essential for municipal planning, emergency action plans, flood insurance rates and ecological studies.

Converting these flood studies into GIS layers would allow users to take advantage of sophisticated analysis tools to explore them in conjunction with other relevant GIS data. Departments could store these studies in a relational database management system, thus making it possible to do the flood zone determination faster.

Using GIS software, geoprocessing technologies and tools in the industry streamlines workflow and can allow companies to load the digital flood data into an enterprise-level flood database. With more efficient processes in place and using a comprehensive set of GIS spatial layers, a company can maintain a high flood zone automation rate.

This, coupled with business rules and logics, helps achieve higher accuracy on flood zone determinations. In an ideal world, the business rules can be customized to meet the needs of lenders/servicers anywhere and everywhere.
Priscilla Anand is GIS technical manager for LERETA, a provider of flood and tax services.

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GIS Technology Now A Critical Tool In Flood Zone Determination - MortgageOrb

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BLOG VIEW: We know that flooding is a major natural disaster that affects many parts of the world, including developed countries such as the U.S. It causes billions of dollars in infrastructure and property damage, as well as loss of life for hundreds each year.

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GIS can be used as a key tool to minimize accident hazard on roads, the existing road network has to be optimized and also the road safety measures have to be improved. This can be achieved by proper traffic management. By identifying the accident locations, remedial measures can be planned by the district administrations to minimize the accidents in different parts of the world. Rerouting design is also very convenient using GIS.

C.Conly

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GIS technology is used by the dairy industry to be able to identify distribution, production rate, and selling rate. It also helps in determining the demand for the milk in different regions. Having GIS can be a very helpful planning tool for the dairy industry.

- S. Marenchuk

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GIS technology is used in the area of ensuring a safe environment for coal production in the mines. With fire being common in the production of coal, the GIS can assess spontaneous combustion risks. This allows administrators to further improve safety and improve the ability to make decisions.
http://grindgis.com/blog/gis-applications-uses

- C. Norris

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GIS helps to monitor and maintain the usage and availability of natural resources such as agriculture, water and forestation. It is used to analyze the geographic distribution of our water resources, as well as managing crop yield, monitoring the crop rotations, and monitoring forest conditions and patterns. This is very important in the distribution and maintenance of these essential resources.

http://grindgis.com/blog/gis-applications-uses

- S. Sparks

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GIS tools is used to help capture ocean data and helps "determine spatial data for fisheries assessment and managment system."  It will gives information in regards to "various commerical activies," helps to minimize costs for fishing industry and to help locate illegal fishing operations.

-A.Shin

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Using GIS helps district administrators to help areas that are prone to see many accidents and to improve the  road saftey measures in these areas.  A re-routing design can also make traveling safer.

-J.Li

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GIS tools add value and the capability to ocean data. ArcGis is used to determine the spatial data for a fisheries assessment and management system. It is extensively used in the ocean industry area and we get accurate information regarding various commercial activities. To enhance minimizing cost for the fishing industry. Also it can determine the location of illegal fishing operations.

M.Xu
http://grindgis.com/blog/gis-applications-uses

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GIS Tracking Spread of Infectious Disease

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GIS Tracking Spread of Infectious Disease

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GIS are playing a big role in tracking disease outbreaks all over the world.

"For instance, during the Disneyland measles outbreak in December of 2014, GIS-based maps were created to help visualize where infected children lived and the potential spread of the disease."

It is also used to gain a better understanding of vaccination rates and laws in different counties to pinpoint which area gets hit the hardest by a serious outbreak, which would give a better understanding of how to contain it.

- K.Balicki
http://hitconsultant.net/2015/10/29/5-benefits-of-geographic-information-systems-in-healthcare/

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The environmental science industry depends those familiar with GIS technology to help with resource management, mapping, surveying, forestry management, and impact analysis. Without GIS professionals, we would have a difficult time gauging how the world around us is changing and what we can do to better preserve it.

Hopefully, you now understand that your GIS degree doesn’t corner you into any particular industry. While the bulk of careers in the GIS field have to do with geography, there are many options available for you to explore. No matter where your passions lie, there’s a good chance you can find a way to make your expertise fit perfectly into that field.
http://gis.usc.edu/msp-resources/articles-blogs/the-6-top-industries-for-gis/
~C. Clark

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GIS is used for finding suitable, viable areas for future growth sites. The technology analyzes these potential sites and helps to determine if they have the requirements necessary for growth.

J. Wright

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Insurance Companies and disaster relief services will use GIS. It is used to help estimate potential damage in a certain area or to help predict the the location that are at most risk in a certain area.

-A. Smith
http://grindgis.com/blog/gis-applications-uses

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A study was performed using GIS to determine the location and frequency of "food deserts" in the city of baltimore, which can help the city with it's planning as well as taking steps to improve the health of it's citizens

Brad Furtah

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What: Used GIS for hurricane relief efforts. By using maps they were able to see where the people who needed priority support such as food, clothing shelters and more. This helps the senior level staff at Red Cross head quarters make informed decisions.

J.ewen

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WHAT: uses GIS to learn about an area, or what the best route is from where they are to where they need to be. As well as choosing the best location They can see where a disease has broken out, where the risk factors are, and where pollution is the worst. They can keep it contained to this one area from stop it spreading.

V. McFadden

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The interactive maps you view on a Phone or the internet use GIS technology. Using Google Maps, people can add traffic information to road maps or view satellite images of their town or neighborhood.

J.Patel

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Use GIS to map out crime patterns. This allows analysts to identify crime hotspots. Having a better understanding of what is around areas of high crime could help understand underlying causes of crime.

-A. Hibbs

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WHAT: uses GIS to display information about current trees and their expected growth patterns to predict how they will affect power lines to prevent power outages.

R. Di Cesare