What is the status of GIS education in Thailand?
The status of GIS education is improving. In the past mapping was more classified. Surveying and Mapping were not very popular. For civilian use only small scale maps were available. Geographer and engineers need large-scale maps. There were not many professionals. Now we find more graduates in the field of geodesy, surveying and geography. However, there is a tendency to overlook the actual concepts of position and accuracy. Now more people are aware of this and good efforts are being put into setting standards for positional accuracy. • Now the term e-government is in vogue. What role GIS can play to make this concept more effective? Many basic information can easily be released in GIS system in a standardised manner. This will surely give a boost to the concept of e-government. However, it depends upon the government which information it would like to share. The approach should be to release all data unless you see there are problems in specific data. The combination of GIS and Inte
