Locating Schools Using Geographic Information System (GIS)

Subject Areas : Urban Management Studies

اسماعیل  کاوسی ¹ (نویسنده و مسئول مکاتبات)
فریده  اسدیان ² (ندارد)
سحر  شاهپری ³ (ندارد)

Received: 2014-10-31 Accepted : 2014-10-31 Published : 2009-09-23

Keywords: Geographic information system, Schools, locating theories, applying qualitative assessmen,

Abstract :

Significant progress in different aspects of human life and the complexity of the relation between these aspects has brought numerous problems in planning and management. Urban administrators and planners are also experts who deal with a wide variety of information and require the use of information in place analysis to maintain and organizing the status of a city. Complexity, diversity and the high amounts of spatial information on one hand and computerized capabilities in the field of information on the other hand, explain the philosophy of the use of computer systems by urban. Since Geographic Information System (GIS) deals specifically with geographic and spatial data and analysis of this information, it is the proper means to locate schools to and establish them in urban area. Also, applying qualitative evaluation of the matrix, provide the appropriate criteria for urban managers to make appropriate decisions to locate schools using the geographic information system (GIS).