THE POSSIBILITIES OF GIS DATABASE APPLICATION IN CHOSEN PRESENTATIONS OF REGIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CONTENTS IN THE PROCESS OF GEOGRAPHIC EDUCATION IN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Contemporary research and presentation of regional geographic contents in primary and secondary schools are almost entirely based on application of adequate GIS databases, which are organized according to the structure of education process. Geographic databases are sets of digital geospatial data systematized at the level of related thematic spatial features that are organized in accordance to an adequate regional geographic fields contained in subject of Geography in primary and secondary schools. Geobases attributes should be adjusted to educational contents in specific teaching lessons. Structurally they are dominantly numerical. Textual and other attribute forms are aplicable only in the specific cases, when content and presentation of teaching lesson have such character. Especially important aspect in content and geobase structure organization is possibility of creation of new geospatial data on the basis of existing attributes, which are based on application of adequate geoprocessing models. Geovisualization of an adequate attributive contents is based on structural GIS models for visualization, thereby putting thematic geobases contents into an adequate cartographic form, which enables automatic editing of all map elements. The tools for functional exploration of cartographic features are providing all the necessary prerequisites for achieving didactic objectives of contemporary geographic education process in primary and secondary schools.