The Importance of Spatial Indicators to Producing Development Plans

Abstract

  The indicators were important core for any work, and may be occurring this indicators way of communicating among planers and decision makers, even also for public participating, do make any decision. The urban and regional planning is one of those science highly depending on using indictors, for two  reasons, first, way to communicating ideas between specialist and non-specialist, (politician and decision makers), the second one, this field are multidisciplinary science, so the need indictors to clearing thoughts among different backgrounds in one team, as common language.

This research tries to clear importance of GIS in forming and building Spatial Planning Indicators, to cross communication problem among planning groups, planner, and decision maker, supposing the Spatial Database for GIS have flexibility for expressing about wide range to any spatial place, with wide range of variables and features, to get the research purpose by depending on this technologies as major element to analyze space from spatial planner.

Research methodology depends on spatial indicators importunity, and it is role in planning process, then explore who we can doing that practically in the real case study to Ministry of Planning, 2016, therefore, we can ask to make this experiment, by using differentiate spatial indicators for planning purpose. We were doing this study in DDLG in Babylon governorate, the researcher was the consultant of this study.

The main result we concluded are important of supporting academic disciplinary with GIS spatial analysis courses, with trying to finding clear discipline in this scientific field, besides that, we can also depend GIS analysis in the work of all institutional and governmental bodies, especially the leaders’ positions, must have the ability to deal with GIS and spatial dimension in their thinking.