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Visual Data Analytics Geographic Information System GIS
-- VDA GIS tools & data for mapping & geospatial analysis
-- access wide-ranging, ready-to-use GIS projects
-- manage your own GIS projects, securely and efficiently

• Amplify your skillset .. enroll in the Using GIS & GeoDemographics short course
• Join us in the Weekly Web Wessions

A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a computer-based tool that allows users to store, analyze, visualize, and interpret geographic data. Geographic data, or geospatial data, identifies the location of features on earth. GIS combines the visual elements of maps with the ability to link characteristics about those features in datasets. This relationship allows GIS to locate, display, analyze, and model data.

GIS technology integrates geographic data with statistical and adminstrative data using statistical methods and analytics. These abilities make GIS valuable to a wide range of public and private enterprises for explaining events, predicting outcomes and planning strategies. And collaborating on those issues.

VDA GIS Resources
Choose from these many ways to use VDA GIS tools.

Feature	iVDA	Discovery	OpenVDA	VDA Web GIS	VDA Desktop
Installation	None	None	None	None	Windows
Platform	web browser	web browser	web browser	web broswer	Windows
Launch from web page	yes	browser based	browser based	browser based	yes, via RDS
Search Bar: find address or location	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Add layers	no	no	no	yes	yes
Edit layers	limited	yes	no	yes	yes
Slide layers in legend	no	no	no	no	yes
GIS projects	1; selected	yes; many	Base only	yes	yes; no limit
Create GIS projects	no	no	no	no	yes
Use local shapefiles	no	no	no	no	yes
GeoSelect/Site Analysis feature	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Table/Grid feature	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Select Layer feature	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Select object/Identify tool	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Batch geocoding	no	no	no	yes	yes
Create/Edit DBF structure	no	no	no	no	yes
Merge DBFs	no	no	no	no	yes
Dissolve shapefile	no	no	no	no	yes
Clip one shapefile based on another shapefile	no	no	no	no	yes
Add shapes/objects to new/esisting shapefile	no	no	no	no	yes
Intersect two shapefiles creating new shapefile	no	no	no	no	yes
Create Point shapefile based on DBF with lat-lon fields	no	no	no	no	yes
Export a shapefile; use query; modify projection	no	no	no	no	yes

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About VDA GIS Resources .. goto top
VDA GIS resources are developed, maintained & supported by ProximityOne/Alexandria, VA USA and Takashi Hamilton/Tsukasa/Osaka, Japan.

Support Using these Resources .. goto top
Learn more about accessing and using demographic-economic data and related analytical tools. Join us in a Data Analytics Lab session. There is no fee for these one-hour Web sessions. Each informal session is focused on a specific topic. The open structure also provides for Q&A and discussion of application issues of interest to participants.

User Group .. goto top
Join the User Group to keep up-to-date with new developments relating to metros and component geography decision-making information resources. Receive updates and access to tools and resources available only to members. Use this form to join the User Group.

Additional Information .. goto top
We develop geodemographic-economic data and analytical tools and helps organizations knit together and use diverse data in a decision-making and analytical framework. We develop custom demographic/economic estimates and projections, develop geographic and geocoded address files, and assist with impact and geospatial analyses. Wide-ranging organizations use our tools (software, data, methodologies) to analyze their own data integrated with other data. Contact us (888-364-7656) with questions about data covered in this section or to discuss custom estimates, projections or analyses for your areas of interest.