scholarly journals SMART TOURISM DESTINATION COMPETITIVENESS: THE EXPLOITATION OF THE BIG DATA IN MOROCCO

2021 ◽  
Vol XLVI-4/W5-2021 ◽  
pp. 259-265
Author(s):  
H. Badri ◽  
A. Hmioui
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Information Science ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Geographic Information Science ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Destination Competitiveness ◽  
The One

Abstract. Over the past decade, the introduction of new technologies in different markets has led to the emergence of smart destinations by providing stakeholders with effective and efficient technological solutions. The objective of smart destinations is to improve spatial competitiveness.Tourism with its focus on travel and the transfer of people, goods, and services across time and space is essentially a geographic phenomenon. The central themes of the research field of traditional geography focus on three related topics: place, space, and environment.The trend toward big data has had a significant impact on all sectors from which geographic information science has had a major impact on how organizations acquire and leverage spatial information. Looking at how organizations are using geographic information science and technology, one of the clearest themes is that usage is expanding rapidly; while traditionally the largest adopters of geospatial data have been government agencies, it is now easy to see widespread adoption of GIS across all industries. On the one hand, to act on the country's income through a wider and more targeted geographic attractiveness and on the other hand, to improve the investment fields in the most visited areas and to create a favorable tourism environment in areas whose attractiveness remains low.

Indoor Spatial Information

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Winter
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Geographic Information Science ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Indoor Environments ◽  
Essential Factor ◽  
Geographic Scale ◽  
Indoor Space ◽  
Outdoor Environments ◽  
Third Dimension

Geographic Information Science focuses traditionally on spatial information of geographic scale and associates this per default with outdoor environments. Systems, databases and models are designed for this primary purpose. In this paper, the author discusses the geographic information requirements in indoor environments and, in particular, their differences to ‘outdoor’ geographic information. The main difference, as argued, is that the third dimension is an essential factor for indoor spatial information, while this is not necessarily so for outdoor information. As a consequence, information technology designed for outdoors is not necessarily fit to model, analyze or communicate about indoor space.

scholarly journals Geographic Information System & Spatial Analysis

2019 ◽  
pp. 70-90
Author(s):  
Naser Ahmed Bipu
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Geographic Information System ◽  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Geographic Information Science ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Gis Applications ◽  
Geographic Data ◽  
Transport Logistics

A geographic information system (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present spatial or geographic data. GIS applications are tools that allow users to create interactive queries (user-created searches), analyze spatial information, edit data in maps, and present the results of all these operations. GIS (more commonly GIS science) sometimes refers to geographic information science (GIS science), the science underlying geographic concepts, applications, and systems. GIS can refer to a number of different technologies, processes, techniques and methods. It is attached to many operations and has many applications related to engineering, planning, management, transport/logistics, insurance, telecommunications, and business. For that reason, GIS and location intelligence applications can be the foundation for many location-enabled services that rely on analysis and visualization.

scholarly journals Revisiting the Role of Place in Geographic Information Science

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Merschdorf ◽  
Thomas Blaschke
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Geographic Information Science ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Subjective Data ◽  
Main Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual

Although place-based investigations into human phenomena have been widely conducted in the social sciences over the last decades, this notion has only recently transgressed into Geographic Information Science (GIScience). Such a place-based GIS comprises research from computational place modeling on one end of the spectrum, to purely theoretical discussions on the other end. Central to all research that is concerned with place-based GIS is the notion of placing the individual at the center of the investigation, in order to assess human-environment relationships. This requires the formalization of place, which poses a number of challenges. The first challenge is unambiguously defining place, to subsequently be able to translate it into binary code, which computers and geographic information systems can handle. This formalization poses the next challenge, due to the inherent vagueness and subjectivity of human data. The last challenge is ensuring the transferability of results, requiring large samples of subjective data. In this paper, we re-examine the meaning of place in GIScience from a 2018 perspective, determine what is special about place, and how place is handled both in GIScience and in neighboring disciplines. We, therefore, adopt the view that space is a purely geographic notion, reflecting the dimensions of height, depth, and width in which all things occur and move, while place reflects the subjective human perception of segments of space based on context and experience. Our main research questions are whether place is or should be a significant (sub)topic in GIScience, whether it can be adequately addressed and handled with established GIScience methods, and, if not, which other disciplines must be considered to sufficiently account for place-based analyses. Our aim is to conflate findings from a vast and dynamic field in an attempt to position place-based GIS within the broader framework of GIScience.

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