1.1. Principal menu

The SIGA SOL 1.0 ( Geographic Information System Applied to Solar Energy) is made up of three principal blocks: management, planning, and updating of data bank., according to what can be seen in Fig. 1. Management and planning occur at two levels: macro-spatial (state) and local (municipal). The updating of data bank can be done by rectification, exclusion or inclusion of information to data banks that are associated to already installed energy systems.

1.2. Functionalities

The use of a GIS tool requires the formulation of questions, whose answers are products of crossing one or more data banks and or maps. The result is not normally completely conclusive (closed) and the product is a group of spatial information and/or reports that almost always still require the interpretation of who made the question. The SIGA SOL 1.0 was constructed to give the user answers to questions, of general and simple character, that in the majority of times corresponds to one layer of information or complex questions whose answers are products of crossing of diverse layers of information. The answer to questions of simple general character are denominated default functionality and are recorded as sub-menus in the menus of management and planning at macro-spatial and local level. The non default functionalities generated by complex questions by the users can be printed or recorded and can be transformed into default functionalities. Other default functionalities associated to the tasks of updating the data bank and dimensioning renewable energy systems are in the sub-menus of the updating and planning menu.