Place. Spatial information ... maps ... are a critical part of the information needed for planning and the management of operations. In real estate the saying goes that the three most important features of a property are location, location and location!

Everything has a spatial characteristic, and from a cost effectiveness and performance perspective, spatial information is important and central to the way TVM records data and does analysis.

Example: Spatial characteristics of IMM Mosquito and malaria control have strong spatial characteristics that have a very large impact on performance. Accordingly spatial information and mapping are a very important part of cost effective high performance integrated malaria management and include:

1. 1. Where are people that are host to the malaria parasite located: where do these people live, where do they work, where do they congregate together, where do they travel to,
2. 2. Where are the sources of mosquitoes,
3. 3. Where do the mosquitoes travel and other details of their behavior including when they travel and how they behave relative to homes, people and animals,
4. 4. Where are infected mosquitoes located,
5. 5. What mosquito and malaria control interventions have been done: when and where.