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As mentioned before, there are also some difficulties
concerning GIS which are faced with during this study, such as:
• incompatibility of the precision of the utilized data sources
with the precision provided by GIS,
• impossibility of querying more than two spatial data at a
time, as a result of which the procedures of analysis
increase due to repeating the same analysis many times,
• not having advanced drawing and editing capabilities as
such a detailed study requires.
To conclude, it is possible to state that assessment of historical
stratification by using GIS will support the conservation
decision-making process and consequently will contribute to the
conservation of multi-layered towns. GIS, defined as the major
tool, are considerably compatible with such a study. However,
standard GIS softwares reveal some problems, which need to be
studied further and solved in association with GIS analysts and
programmers.
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Acknowledgements:
Special thanks are due to Prof. Dr. Cevat Erder, for his
constitutive, insightful comments and long term support as the
supervisor of this study.
Thanks are due to ‘I$LEM Geographic Information Systems
and Engineering Limited’, for sponsoring ArcView GIS and for
providing continuous technical support.
