GIS is a basic technology for GeoCounsel. We were participating in this market since 1981, shortly after its inception. We programmed GIS software, conceptualized solutions, and made some of the earliest sales. For example, our CEO wrote the first comprehensive cadastral GIS for Mexico starting in 1980, selling and delivering 40 licenses to that country, and receiving the 1985 Governor's Award for Exellence in Exporting for this.

Also, our staff was previously employed by some of the largest and important GIS consulting firms and GIS software houses throughout the tumultous history of that technology.

In essence, GIS is an amalgam of relational database management systems, mapping systems, and intra/internet applications. Queries can be textual/numeric and graphical, and results the same. Therefore it is possible to ask, for example, which houses fall within a floodplain, which hospitals have cardiac units, or which parts of a highway are crossing environmental sensitive areas.

As such, the applications implemented on the basis of GIS are wideranging, essentially being limited only by the implementer's creativity. Utilities were early implementers, and today over 90% of electric distribution companies have GIS.

The implementation of GIS follows strict rules, consisting of a firm planning of the process to assure that user requirements are satisfied. Given that most uses vary considerably, it is important to keep implementation detail on track. GeoCounsel can help you do that.