Geospatial technologies have succeeded in developing new aspects of research and even, new products, especially at the high-tech sector of the economy. However, there is not enough information for the contribution of GIS to different productive and operating systems in different sectors of economy. Besides the producers of GIS packages, I am not very sure if there are organizations or researchers that could estimate the contribution of GIS in different economic sectors and I would really like to know what methodology they use.
Nice issue for disscussion bdw i think there is lots of scope in this field specially GIS application can be a very useful tool for represantion of data and analysis .
The fundamental of GIS technologies is that, on its capability to analyse and display a spatial data (together with its attributes) in a real georaphical reference. In your case, I think there are many ways on how GIS could contribute, e.g. on logistics, markets, business networking and lingkages, and also not limited to benefits projection. Also there are a lots of GIS software developed to supports the business activities, like GIS Web, etc. So, most importantly you should understand how GIS works.
Companies like ESRI use to have some "commercial" (advertisment) reports about GIS economical impact. I think Global Spatial Infrastructure (GSDI) can have any report about economical impacts as well as World Bank. In most of the cases GIS technology works as a part of new bussines infrastructure and I think it has different impacts in different activities. As a part of a new infrastructure its contribution to the improvement of bussines is sometimes intagible. anyway, I think you can also have a good idea about GIS economical impact in a specific actity like cadastre. See what is happening in countries or states where taxes are based on digital cadastre vs non digital cadastre. Try to look to the FIG congress too if there are any information about the subject you are interested on.
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