Application of WebGIS in E-Commerce

Geographical location is one of the important factors in many business activities, so geography plays an important supporting role in business operations and decision-making. The emergence and application of WebGIS not only changed existing business models, but also created new models. Web maps are very convenient and intuitive in providing information such as the location of commercial outlets; online map advertising has largely replaced print advertising and captured many shares of TV advertising. Applications that use Web and mobile maps to find the location of shops, restaurants, hotels and other facilities and calculate the best path to these facilities have become very common. In addition, cloud GIS such as software-as-a-service (SaaS) simplifies the application of GIS and reduces the cost of GIS construction, thus greatly expanding the application fields and user groups of WebGIS. Commercial organizations are often non-GIS professional organizations, and can also obtain the GIS functions they need for free or rental methods, and use WebGIS for customer relationship management, commercial site selection analysis, and business decisions.

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Principles, Technologies, and Methods of Geographic Information Systems  102

In recent years, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have undergone rapid development in both theoretical and practical dimensions. GIS has been widely applied for modeling and decision-making support across various fields such as urban management, regional planning, and environmental remediation, establishing geographic information as a vital component of the information era. The introduction of the “Digital Earth” concept has further accelerated the advancement of GIS, which serves as its technical foundation. Concurrently, scholars have been dedicated to theoretical research in areas like spatial cognition, spatial data uncertainty, and the formalization of spatial relationships. This reflects the dual nature of GIS as both an applied technology and an academic discipline, with the two aspects forming a mutually reinforcing cycle of progress.