The use of GIS in urban planning In modern conditions, strategic decision-making on land management is difficult due to the lack of available resources, as well as the lack of quality information on the basis of which you can develop a balanced action plan.
Geographic information systems (GIS) allow to effectively analyze the current state of the territory and predict the consequences of economic activity, but the situation is complicated by the lack of on-site specialists who can use such systems and prepare initial data for informed decisions.
One of the trends in the technological direction of development in the field of spatial planning is the use and transition to open source software products (Open source), such as PostgreSQL / Postgis, QGIS, GRASS and others.
Their main advantages:
a) Budget. Because the software (software) has a free license, it can be used by organizations, institutions, projects with different budgets;
b) the ability to quickly develop, update and correct errors in the work of the software through the joint work of different users and the ability to adapt the base code to specific tasks;
c) independence from the dictates of the conditions of specific producers. Because the software code is open, the user can make adjustments or easily upgrade to a new version of the product.
In our work we actively use the QGIS geographic information system and the PostgreSQL database management system.
With academic and practical experience in the development and use of geographic information systems, we offer training courses in the following areas: