Republic of the Philippines

PROVINCE OF BOHOL

PROVINCIAL PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT OFFICE

Geographic Information System (GIS) Section

Home     About Us     Products     Services     Data     Event     What’s New

The Provincial Planning and Development Office have been considered as the “Data Repository of the Provincial Government. Pertinent data from various offices, local and national alike, were collected by the PPDO staff. They were supposed to be used for analysis in planning activities. But looking at these voluminous data (mostly in matrix format), it is often difficult to make an analysis from it. Organizing, storage and retrieval of these data presents yet another big problem.

Then entered GIS. In 1999, ARD-GOLD Projects introduced GIS to this Office. It is found to be an absolute answer to the department’s problems in handling the data. Presenting data with a spatial dimension offers a better understanding to the situation and appropriate actions can be decided sooner than usual.

Embracing this technology, the Geographic Information System Section of the Provincial Planning & Development Office (PPDO-GIS) was created to undertake necessary activities to come-up with a functional application of this new technology.