Intelligent GIS : Location Decisions and Strategic Planning

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Summary: Intelligent GIS: Location Decisions and Strategic Planning
Review: This text, explore and discuss the geographic modeling and how it is used to improve planning by providing spatial information, and uses examples taken from real situations. The books offers a bief introduction about local decision and planning in organizations, it dicuss applications in retail planning, including a chapter that focuses on the automobile industry, health-care planning and analysis, urban and water-resource planning, and financial services. The book's uses range form regression techniques and choice models to spatial interaction models and market indicators, it may be useful to suplement a second or third level geography course to emphatize some real-word applications of geography theory. The bok is an extraordinary resourse and it is readable.