PL
Systemy Informacji Geograficznej (GIS) stają się coraz powszechniej stosowanym narzędziem w badaniach przestrzennych. Duże miasta były tymi gminami, które najwcześniej podjęły prace zmierzające do wdrożenia GIS na swoim terenie. W artykule przedstawiono stan tych prac w wielu miastach polskich (Łódź, Gdańsk, Poznań, Wrocław, konurbacja Górnego Śląska, Kraków).
EN
The paper contains a broad review of efforts taken up in several large cities of Poland (Łódź, Gdańsk, Poznań, Wrocław, Kraków and Upper Silesia region) to create and implement GIS in the activity of local government, especially in the field of physical planning and land management on municipal level. So far, such application consist usually in capturing manualy drawn plans into computerized systems. There is, however, much prospect for the use of GIS in the process of plan making and decision support systems. There in also quite a large area of potential GIS applications in small and medium sized municipalities. However, for financial reasons, such applications will have to be simplified and will concern only a few selected aspects of land managament.