{"id":8881,"date":"2025-10-29T04:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T04:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/floka.local\/?p=8881"},"modified":"2026-10-21T14:00:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T12:00:59","slug":"seamless-blockchain-networks-redefining-digital-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartmap.sk\/en\/seamless-blockchain-networks-redefining-digital-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"What is GIS and why do modern local authorities use it today?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhat is GIS and why do modern local authorities use it today?\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Towns and local authorities deal with a vast amount of information every day. They manage assets, roads, street lighting, utility networks, green spaces, taxes and investment projects. It is becoming increasingly difficult to make sense of such a large volume of data without modern tools.<\/p>

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Geographic Information Systems, known by the acronym GIS, provide a way of linking all this data to a specific location on a map. Instead of lists and tables, the user gains a visual overview of the area and can immediately see all the important connections.<\/p>

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GIS enables information from various registers to be integrated into a single environment. Data on assets, utility networks, transport infrastructure and the environment all become part of a single digital ecosystem.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Thanks to the map view, users can plan investments more easily, coordinate maintenance, identify problem areas or prepare development projects. The information is presented clearly and in context, which makes it much easier to interpret.<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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GIS is also becoming a communication tool between individual departments, the organisation\u2019s management and the public.<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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      • \n more effective investment planning <\/span>\n <\/li><\/ul>\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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            Modern local authorities need to process ever-increasing volumes of data quickly, efficiently and in context. GIS offers the ability to link information to a specific location and create a clear, organised environment that supports both day-to-day management and long-term planning.<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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            SMARTmap enables local authorities to make full use of the potential of geographic information systems. It brings together data from various areas into a single user interface and helps organisations make decisions based on accurate information, rather than on guesswork.<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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            okt 29, 2025 \u010co je GIS a pre\u010do ho dnes vyu\u017e\u00edvaj\u00fa modern\u00e9 samospr\u00e1vy Mest\u00e1 a obce pracuj\u00fa ka\u017ed\u00fd de\u0148 s obrovsk\u00fdm mno\u017estvom inform\u00e1ci\u00ed. Spravuj\u00fa majetok, komunik\u00e1cie, verejn\u00e9 osvetlenie, technick\u00e9 siete, zele\u0148, dane \u010di investi\u010dn\u00e9 projekty. Orientova\u0165 sa v takomto mno\u017estve d\u00e1t bez modern\u00fdch n\u00e1strojov je \u010doraz n\u00e1ro\u010dnej\u0161ie. \u00a0 Geografick\u00e9 informa\u010dn\u00e9 syst\u00e9my, zn\u00e1me pod skratkou GIS, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[5,6,7,8],"class_list":["post-8881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gis","tag-architecture","tag-construction","tag-design","tag-interior"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartmap.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartmap.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartmap.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartmap.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartmap.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8881"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/smartmap.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10955,"href":"https:\/\/smartmap.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881\/revisions\/10955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartmap.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartmap.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartmap.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartmap.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}