Why should I use geGIS?

geGIS does not aim to replace existing so-called Fat-Client GIS applications.

geGIS does aim to make simple GIS operations possible as a rich internet application (RIA).

The underlying idea is that geGIS should give organizations with limited budgets (including the majority of the Flemish local governments) the opportunity to carry out simple GIS tasks (to frequently visit data levels and simply edit them). Another aim is that geGIS should contribute to the dissemination of geographical information throughout the organization, so that GIS data can be used on a much broader scale.

In the long term, this sort of approach can only lead to a higher quality of data in the GIS data levels. At the moment, GIS is a matter of a small group of civil servants in many organizations who have installed a GIS system on their PC. Therefore geGIS provides many possibilities for organizations with and without a GIS system.