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Once digitized and edited GIS data are stored in a spatial database. Evidently, the quality of the decisions made from a GIS will depend on the quality of the data contained in the database. A spatial database is defined as a pool of integrated and structured geospatial data, which is a model of reality, and from which data may be retrieved to provide useful information to users. Hence, a spatial database is comprised of inter-related geospatial data that is maintained efficiently and which is shareable between different GIS applications

“Good design is clear thinking made visible.”

Edward Tufte

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Spatial Sciences, Curtin University of Technology, P.O. Box U1987, Perth, WA, 6845, Australia

    Joseph L. Awange

  2. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Joseph L. Awange

  3. Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Joseph L. Awange

  4. School of Environment, Maseno University, Kisumu, Kenya

    Joseph L. Awange

  5. Geospatial and Space Technology, University of Nairobi, Harry Thuku Way, Nairobi, 30197, Kenya

    John B. Kyalo Kiema

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Awange, J.L., Kyalo Kiema, J.B. (2013). GIS Database. In: Environmental Geoinformatics. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34085-7_16

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