A Frame Work for combining Geographical Information System with Electronic Commerce

Abstract

Geographical Information System (GIS) became a well established and beneficial technology in our daily life. Electronic Commerce has changed the view of utilizing technology to serve our needs and expands it to a new era. E-commerce involves making business transactions via telecommunication networks, primarily the Internet and extends to worlds of wireless networks and PDAs. GIS is managing any kind of business information according to its location. With organizations wanting to reach more people with their information, data, and services the need for serving and distributing data and analysis results is greater than ever, generating a need for GIS technology on the handhelds devices. The integration between the GIS and the E-commerce appears in many fields;

one of the latest fields is Location commerce.