Jin, Tao (2005) GIS for house hunters: a case study in Toowoomba. [USQ Project]
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Abstract
House hunting is one of the most important activities for many families in
Australia and worldwide, which also involves difficult decisions to make.
Currently, the process of hunting for a house requires looking and inspecting
individual houses with or without the guide of a real estate agent. This is a
time consuming process, and even though, the house hunters may still miss
out the ideal home they dream of. This project demonstrated a method where
Geographic Information System (GIS) technique can be used to help house
hunters to identify and choose their dream home.
GIS is a powerful set of tools for capturing, organising, retrieving at will,
analysing and presenting spatially referenced data from the real world for a
particular set of purposes. This technology is ideal for the application of
location-based services, such as the property listing and selling in the real
estate industry. In this project, a user-friendly GIS program was developed to
manipulate the property listing for sale geographically, to display the property
listing in relation to other social and environmental features including
topography, transportation, schools and/or shopping centres, and to provide
tools for the house hunters to search and inspect properties and make
choices without the need of getting into the houses. Even though open house
inspection is still required before a final decision is made, these inspections
can be limited to only a small number of houses, making the process of house
hunting faster and also reducing the danger of missing out the ideal house for
the hunter. Compared to the conventional way of getting a property list and
inspecting them one by one, the GIS based property searching and inspection
tools are proved to be more efficient and less time consuming.
The project demonstrated that GIS provides powerful tools in assisting the
house hunters searching for houses and make informed and intelligent
decisions. The GIS program developed in this project can be easily used by
the real estate practitioners in property selling or renting, which will improve
their business efficiency.
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| Item Type: | USQ Project |
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| Refereed: | No |
| Item Status: | Live Archive |
| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Engineering and Surveying - Department of Surveying and Land Information (Up to 30 Jun 2013) |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Oct 2007 00:15 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Jul 2013 22:30 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Geographic Information System (GIS), real-estate, Toowoomba |
| Fields of Research (2008): | 09 Engineering > 0909 Geomatic Engineering > 090903 Geospatial Information Systems |
| Fields of Research (2020): | 40 ENGINEERING > 4013 Geomatic engineering > 401302 Geospatial information systems and geospatial data modelling |
| URI: | https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/135 |
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