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GIS systems are integrated with e-government services for different purposes , give an example of saudi e-government service that use GIS and explain how it use it?
Saudi e-government service that use GIS (Geographical Information System) –it includes the service related to the geographical area where geographic coordinates are used to search for a health facility by name and distance. the ministry of health e-portal provides its visitors with location of health facilities. The service includes : Enabling visitors of the ministry of health e-portal , from inside and outside the kingdom to search from health facilities by geographic coordinates . Enabling visitors of the ministry of health e-portal from inside and outside the kingdom to search for health facilities by the name of the health facility . Health geographic information system web portal has been launched as the early implementation initiatives within ministry of health . To broader the GIS application in health Murad had discusse the potential of a creating GIS application for local health care planning in Saudi Arabia. He identified several tools required for the purpose: Geo coding , overlay analysis and network analysis . The purposed GIS information includes population density , diabetic patients modelling patient flow , blood pressure , asthma patients and populations .