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Journal of Geographic Information System, 2015, 7, 328-347 Published Online August 2015 in SciRes. /journal/jgis /10.4236/jgis.2015.74026 A Model for Measuring Geographic Information Systems Success * Khalid A. Eldrandaly, Soaad M. Naguib , Mohammed M. Hassan Information Systems Department, Faculty of Computers and Informatics, Zagazig University, Al-Sharqiyah, Egypt * Email: Khalid_eldrandaly@.eg, so3ad_mn@,eg, monirhm2002@ Received 21 June 2015; accepted 23 July 2015; published 28 July 2015 Copyright © 2015 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). /licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have become a fact of our life as they are being used by more people and organizations for more complex decision problems than ever before. The use of GIS can achieve valuable benefits for individuals, organizations and society; however, the achieve- ment of these benefits depends on the success of GIS. While information systems (IS) success mod- els have received much attention among researchers, there is a general scarcity of research con- ducted to measure the GIS success. This paper proposes a success model for measuring GIS success by extending and modifying previous IS success models. The developed success model consists of two main levels: GIS project diffusion success, and GIS post-implementation success. The first level identifies the critical success factors (CSFs) that influence the success of GIS adoption at each stage of the diffusion process. The second level of the proposed model identifies and organizes the suc- cess dimensions (outcom