Over the last decades, many advances have been made in GIS interfaces and functionality; however the concept of proximity or nearness, which is essential in many forms of human reasoning, is still being addressed insufficiently.
Selecting areas that have not changed their land-use types and that are relatively ecologically valuable, a comparison was made, using GIS, with the location of the recently proposed ecological network.
The natural disaster prevention information is shown to customer as asp web page through the system application; customers can make various GIS operation and some analysis if necessary.
Early linking of GIS and qualitative research was made by participatory GIS researchers, often in planning, and has now been developed with a variety of different qualitative methods used (Kwan and Ding, 2008).
The solap concept is also described and a comparison is made with traditional gis applications.
In practical work, adopted maps come from various sources with different mapping standards (Qin et al. 2000; Brewer et al. 2003; Gustavvson et al. 2006) (hereunder, the map refers to the vector map made by a GIS platform, *.mxd format).
Cartographic displays were made using ArcView GIS 9.2 [ 40].
Geographic information system (GIS) analyses and maps were made with the DIVA-GIS software (www.diva-gis.org).org
The prototype made use of a GIS platform, aerial and terrestrial imagery, digital maps and information from various national statistics and databases.
