2008 Volume 16 Issue 2 Pages 137-146
This paper examines utilities and obstacles of integrated GIS uses for the solid waste section, a typical section that does not need management administration of map drawings, in Uji City. The section has terminal environments for the use of integrated GIS maintained by the city hall and several detailed information with geographic references such as collected garbage amount at each pickup point. However, both of the GIS environment and the information with geographic references were not employed mainly due to the lack of sufficient knowledge about the contemporary digital mapping that the integrated GIS offers and various small area statistics of the local government in digital formats. This paper exemplified how the integrated GIS environment is potentially useful at the section by showing digital mapping of collected garbage amounts. This case study implies that general education of fundamental knowledge about GIS usage, identifying maintained geographic information and training of GIS coordinators who facilitate the GIS use for a sectional purpose are critical to make the use of such integrated GIS environments more practical at a section that does not need management administration of map drawings in a local government.
