Quantum GIS |
Geographical Information System
GIS plays an essential role in helping public health organizations understand population health and make decisions accordingly. Maps - the visual product of GIS - provide useful spatial information and improve the ability to communicate a health situation to decision makers.
Quantum GIS is a data management and mapping system which facilitates data standardization, collection and updating of data on epidemiology and interventions, and allows the visualization of data in form of maps. Primary functions include:
- View and overlay vector and raster data in different formats and projections
- Create maps and interactively explore spatial data with a user-friendly graphic interface
- Create, edit and export spatial data
- Perform spatial analysis
- Publish your map on the internet
- Adapt Quantum GIS to your special needs through the extentable plug-in architecture