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HOW AND WHAT GIS SOLUTIONS CAN HELP IN CIVIL ENGINEERING 

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What are the applications and uses of GIS in Civil Engineering? 

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  • To survey any site, usually a remote and human inaccessible site.




 




  • To determine boundaries of buildings and structures




 




  • Defining transportation routes, or an electricity distribution network.




 




  • In the area of transportation the GIS provides the ability
    to model individual road elements and intersections and to analyze routes between any two points within an urban street network.




 




  • Emergency services planning to identify the shortest path to a hospital or to examine the average response time to a call to the fire department.




 




  • The geographic information system provides the ability to model utility networks, such as water supply system, power, and telecommunications system.




 




  • In customer support to respond to service failure.




 




  • In short GIS is used in civil engineering for urban planning, route optimization, public utility network management, demography, cartography, agriculture, natural resources administration, coastal monitoring, fire and epidemics control.




 



  • To compare complex data of different locations e.g earthquake record of different areas.


 


For more information Application of GIS in Civil Engineering

Answered by Haseeb Jamal at Mar 10, 2010 12:08 PM

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