Estudio comparativo de las herramientas de desarrollo en sistemas de información geográfico y sus extensiones. Caso práctico: EMAPAR.

Abstract

The current investigation is aimed to the comparative study between two different versions of SIG tool, for the geographic organization of information required for the continuous improvement of the administration of basic services provided by Riobamba's Municipal water and sewage company. The application of SIC, with free proprietary license, will allow an improvement in the efficiency with the automated gathering of alphanumeric and graphic Information of each property such as owner's name, construction area, water meter, sewage, and consumption patterns amongst others. The study evaluated: program stability, portability. operability with other versions, muith language support, compatibility with Visual Basic, easy of use, and costs, For the tests and the implementation of the SIC system, we used ARCGIS vers 9.2 with Visual Basic while GVsic Vers 1.1 was used with JAVA and saL SERVER 2000, and WINDOws SP2 as the operating system. The investigation results graded ARcGIS Vers 9.2 with 8o,68% while GvsIC vers 1.1 was graded with only 77.27%, indicating that ARCGIS vers 9.2 is the best option.