A gisnic: A low cost geographic information systems tool from nic

GISNIC, a low cost GIS tool from NIC, is designed and developed to cater the need of low end GIS users. Geographic Information, Systems (GIS) deals with management of spatially referenced natural resource and environmental data. A GIS

facilitates in managing both spatial and nort spatial (attribute) data. Map or cartographic data is stored in one of the two

formats :raster or vector. GISNIC is vector based GIS software that facilitates collection, storage, editing and analysis of spatial data. It also facilitates composition of maps for decision making process and other ancillary use. Composition involves:.::ion of various features and linking of spatial data with attribute data for analysis purpose. Spatial data is stored in.. data format of GISNIC whereas attribute data is stored in tabular form. Attribute data is description of the features r.jzed with spatial (map) data, such as area, soil type, slope etc. GISNIC is MS Window based GUI tool.