Advances in GIS technology have greatly expanded the uses of poverty maps by making it easier for nonspecialists to overlay or juxtapose poverty maps with other thematic maps.

• 地理信息系统（GIS）技术的进步，大大地扩大了非专家人士对贫困地图的使用，通过更容易地制作贫困地图，与其他主题的地图重叠或并列。