Power of maps

GIS became an important invadable information system used by many developed and developing cities in urban and transportation systems long-and short-term planning process. In light of this statement, this study Illustrates the importance of GIS to the urban and transportation planning process. It illustrates the relationship between GIS as an integrated system and its relation to the overall planning process. Furthermore, the study explains the GIS workflow, which contributes in creating a coordinated full venture in an urban or transportation planning project by enhancing complex topographical data present in real life or geographical information, to be easily shared between stakeholders and decisionmakers as a framework to access better quality geospatial data. Then, reaching to the concept of geographic visualization that delivers to decision-makers a visual illustration of large and complex geospatial data through map representation. The map representation in this study is defined as the science of cartography.