Example: Fire Chief

You are a Fire Chief and you are using traditional map books: you are becoming a little frustrated because hand-written annotations make them difficult to read. Beside hard-copy maps used as a back up in the fire trucks, you would like to have access dynamic depiction of conditions.  You need GIS!

With GIS, you can prepare and modify a response plan on the fly. You are wirelessly hooked to the central IT database with a GIS interface and while you are in “idle” mode, you query the GIS database to simulate better and faster routes; to review the sate of fuel materials in schools or factories; to study the floor layout of specific high rise building thanks to CAD drawings embedded in the server-based GIS solution.  You are on top of the world because you know that, now, you are able more than ever to perform a first response having “rehearsed and seen” all the possibilities in advance.