One of the indicators of sustainable development is spatial order, under-stood as a spatial arrangement which includes e.g. natural, social and economic, cultural as well as compositional and aesthetic conditions. Ensuring spatial order in rural areas is difficult due to various forms of elements occurring there. How-ever, the original method for assessing spatial order of rural areas presented in the study allows to assess the spatial order and at the same time provides the possibility of demonstrating which of the elements making up the space under analysis has a negative effect on the land management status. The study also presents a theoretical concept of a GIS database supporting the assessment of the spatial order of rural areas, indicating its source components, which include, e.g. a land and building register and a soil-agricultural map. Additionally, it also shows some examples of spatial analyses, the results of which have been derived in the form of a map assessing the status of spatial order and a tabular-descriptive report supplementing it.
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The geoinformation software market is becoming increasingly competitive. New improvements and tools are created, which are provided to the users with subsequent updates. Additionally, completely new software is appearing as well. Nevertheless, for the past several years, ArcGIS and QGIS have been the most popular software in Poland. There are many handbooks and manuals describing their possibilities. Both systems offer numerous functions. This does not mean, however, that the results of identical spatial analyses performed in ArcGIS and QGIS will be identical as well. The comparison of the results of such analyses performed on vector and raster data is the main objective of the conducted study. The research demonstrates, that selected analogical tools implemented in discussed systems provides different results especially in the range of spatial analyses performed on raster data. ...
