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GIS of the Croatian cities at the Adriatic coast

The future prospects of an area depends to a great extent on existing opportunities and constraints but also on possible actions which can be envisaged to guide development in the area. Such actions have to be based on a realistic assessment of problems, trends and options in a variety of policy areas such as population growth, employment, overall and sectoral economic development, social services, infrastructure development, environmental protection and human health, quality of life, etc. In addition to its geographic location, the Croatian cities at the Adriatic coast offers many opportunities for economic development, owing to its natural resources (coastal area, islands, natural parks, fishing, agriculture, tourism) and cultural heritage. The outgoing competition in tourism economy demands new and innovative strategies for the presentation of the tourism regions. The strategy for GIS should be based on the principle that it is of utmost importance to redress regional imbalances (coast/hinterland/islands), and to strength and upgrade the capacity to manage regional resources through an advanced exercise of territorial policy at the local level, in line with best practices already in use in member states of the European Union (EU). Today, GIS supports more and more tools of graphic programs and they have the tools for manipulating with objects, text, retrieved objects, for special effects, export filters, etc. Digital tools are being developed continuously, and hence, it is expected that more convincing visualisation tools for the presentation design will appear. All of these tools serve to transform raw data into meaningful information. Further analytical work can extract knowledge from the available data and information. One of the important weaknesses of GIS profession in Croatia is an inability, in a time of limited public resources, to formulate realistic and implementable spatial development strategies and policies. GIS can easily end up as unproductive and even damaging efforts by diverting financial resources needed for other priorities, or by raising expectations that cannot be satisfied. Such failures run the risk of prejudicing people against the idea of sustainable development, participation, and multidisciplinary approaches. In the paper it is pointed how demanding GIS is. The role and importance of GIS is examined on GIS of the Croatian cities (e. g. Zadar, Sibenik, Dubrovnik, etc.) and islands (e. g. Mljet, Kornati, Zlarin, etc.) at the Adriatic coast.

GIS; Croatia; cities; Adriatic; coast; Internet; tourism

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