SOME ISSUES ON URBAN CENSUS GIS DESIGNING

This paper first briefly looks back on the history of census GIS around the world, and then summarizes some preponderances of developing urban census GIS in China. And then a three-tier construction architecture for the urban census GIS is proposed. Finally, using the illustration of the census data of Guangzhou city, the paper analyzes and elaborates some issues on the urban census GIS designing, such as data management, data warehouse building, and data analysis.