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March 2025 - Fundamental of GIS Examination
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Contents
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The Paper as Set
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Duration 2½ hours · Total marks 75 · 30 questions answered
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SECTION I
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Attempt any three of the following · 15 Marks
a.How do professionals from different fields use GIS for working with positional data?[5]
Answer
For full marks, cover: what positional data is, why GIS suits it, how professionals in several fields use it with an example each, and what they have in common.
Positional data and GIS
Positional data records where things are: coordinates of a point, the line of a road, the outline of a plot. Together with attribute data (what the thing is) and time (when), it describes a geographic phenomenon. A GIS stores, analyses and displays positional data, so that people can ask "where?" and "what is near what?".
How different professionals use it
1. Urban and regional planners. Map land use, zoning and infrastructure. They overlay population, roads and flood zones to choose sites for schools or housing.
2. Civil engineers and surveyors. Record exact positions of land parcels, pipelines and roads with GNSS and total stations. They design alignments and calculate earthwork from terrain models.
3. Environmental scientists. Track forest cover, pollution and wildlife habitats from satellite images and field points. They study change over time, such as deforestation.
4. Disaster managers. Map hazard zones, plan evacuation routes and locate shelters. In a flood, they combine rainfall, river levels and settlement positions to send help where it is needed.
5. Health officials (epidemiologists). Map disease cases by address to find clusters, such as dengue around stagnant water, and plan clinic locations.
6. Utilities and telecom companies. Keep maps of cables, poles, pipes and towers. When a fault is reported, they locate the asset and send the nearest crew.
7. Agriculture and agronomists. Use field boundaries and soil samples for precision farming, varying fertiliser by position in a field.
8. Police and emergency services. Map crime hotspots and route ambulances and fire engines by the fastest path.
9. Businesses and marketers. Choose shop locations from customer addresses, competitors and footfall.
Summary
| Field | Positional data used | Typical question |
|---|---|---|
| Planning | Land parcels, zones | Where should the new school go? |
| Engineering | Survey points, alignments | Where does the road run? |
| Environment | Forest boundaries, sample points | How fast is forest cover changing? |
| Disaster management | Hazard zones, shelters | Which villages are at risk? |
| Health | Case locations | Where is the disease cluster? |
| Utilities | Network assets | Where is the fault? |
| Business | Customer locations | Where should we open a branch? |
What they share
All of them link where with what and when. They combine layers from different sources and use spatial analysis such as buffers, overlay and shortest paths. The positional data must be accurate and in a common coordinate system for the analysis to be trusted.
Conclusion. Professionals in planning, engineering, environment, disaster management, health, utilities, agriculture, policing and business all use GIS to record, analyse and display positional data. Each asks a different "where" question, but all rely on accurate positions linked to attributes and analysed together in a GIS.
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