Geographical information system (GISy) implementation without geographical information science (GISc) fundamental

• Main Authors: Mohd. Nawawi, Noorain, Ujang, Uznir, Mohd. Ariff, Shahidah, Tan, Liat Choon, Azri, Suhaibah
• Format: Article
• Published: World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) 2021
• Subjects: G Geography (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/97199/; http://dx.doi.org/10.30534/ijatcse/2021/491022021

This article reviews the use of Geographical Information System (GIS) has been primarily applied in spatial decision making from simple to complex geospatial problems. GIS is usually referred to as a computer system used explicitly to store, manage, analyze, manipulate, and visualize geospatial data. GIS can produce meaningful information for a better understanding of solving related geographic/spatial problems. With the technology, hardware, and software assistance, GIS is at its progressive pace even though GIS starts with a simple and straightforward question of geographic features/event location. This rapid development has made GIS and spatial data becoming a critical commodity today. However, without the basic knowledge and GIS understanding, the actual GIS capabilities, such as understanding geographical concepts, managing geographic phenomena, and solving geographical problems, become limited. To become worse, GIS is was seen as a tool to facilitate map display and simple spatial analysis. Furthermore, the market's professional training emphasizes simple GIS components such as hardware, software, geospatial data mapping, extracting geographical data from tables (tabular data), simple queries or display, and spatial data editing mastered using GIS manuals in training. Thus, this article highlights the impact of implementing GIS without sufficient GIS fundamental knowledge, resulting in complicated spatial decision planning issues.