My research proposal is about what affects spread diseases in Arlington, VA
The assignment asks for 1-2 pages proposal with your: 1. research question 2. body of evidence you are using to uphold your argument
Simple questions like these can be answered effectively with a good printed map, of course. However, GIS becomes increasingly attractive as the number of people asking the questions and the required level of precision grows, especially if they lack access to the required paper maps.
Notice that all of these questions deal with where things are, how things relate to other things, and how things change or persist relative to these locations. These are the kinds of questions that GIScience and professionals in the geospatial industry are prepared to answer.
These are hard to answer through GIS:
explanatory questions–such as why entities are located where they are, why they have the attributes they do, and why they have changed as they have. In addition, organizations are often concerned with predictive questions–such as what will happen at this location if thus-and-so happens at that location?
In general, GIS software packages cannot be expected to provide clear-cut answers to explanatory and predictive questions right out of the box.
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