Using the system design discussed in section 4, two major demands of this web-based UMS for the City of Windsor, Ontario, Canada are satisfied. One is to publish urban data in City of Windsor via the internet to make the public to access them as the classic web-based UMS does. The other one is to enable authorized users, e.g. administrators, to access more advanced operations, such as to manage GIS data via the internet without installation of any other GIS software. In this web-based UMS, PostgreSQL and GeoServer are used to construct vector data web service provider, SQL Server 2008, ArcSDE and GeoServer are used to construct aerial photo web service provider, and Apache Tomcat is employed as the web Server. Javascripts and JAVA are the primary programming languages respectively for the client side and the server side developments. The application is running on a Server computer with Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.40GHz and 3.50 GB of RAM. The operation system is Windows 2003 standard X86. The interface is shown in Figure 6. Figure 6. Application interface 5.1Functionalities for the P...
The municipal restructuring in Ontario from 1996 to 1999, whether voluntary or involuntary, was the most comprehensive process of municipal reforms since the Baldwin Act of 1849 (Frisken 30). After the election of Harris’ Conservative government in 1995, municipal reform took on a life of its own as it was followed with substantial activity between 1996 and 1999 (Sancton 135-56). This research paper looks to categorize, describe and evaluate the substantial activity that took place between the province and its municipal subordinates. While other papers have argued whether the change of the fiscal relationship was to benefit the province or if the structure of local government had simply become outdated, the issues of why the reforms occurred is not the focus of this research. However, what this paper will evaluate is whether the substantial activity made any long-term changes in the system by outlining the numerous reforms and examining their impact. This paper will begin by assessing the financial reform, which was the starting point for more extensive changes, followed by functional, structural and legislative reforms during 1996 to 1999.
Introduction Those interested in pursuing a career in firefighting are faced with many options when it comes to selecting a department to apply to. Attaining a career with Columbus Fire is often a goal of students in Central Ohio, and for good reason. Problem The Columbus Division of Fire is a large organization that hires candidates using a standard civil service hiring process every two years (unless there is not a need). This means that if the city has enough employees at the end of the two-year cycle to continue operations, they can opt to forgo a testing process until it is needed.
In the business world today, technology is becoming an essential staple. Every big business relies on it one way or another. More importantly than just technology itself, the use of management information systems is what guides a company in terms of catering to its customers and knowing what moves to make next. Management information systems (MIS) can be defined is the study of people, technology, and organizations (What is MIS?). However, that is a very general definition because there is a lot more that comes out of the use of these MIS systems.
Ozzie, Ray. "The Internet Services Disruption." Harsh's GIS Blog. 28 Oct. 2005. Web. 11 Aug. 2011. .
Toronto city is one of the world’s most cosmopolitan, diverse and tolerant cities and is consistently ranked as one of the best cities to live in terms of life quality. Toronto located on the northwestern shores of Lake Ontario in the Southern Ontario district is home to more than 2.5 million residents. This Canadian city is unique melting pot of diverse cultural and ethnical immigrants from all over the world. The city is renowned for its high quality of life, economic and financial position and as an important socio-cultural center of North America.
According to Haag (2013), the difference between the two decision support systems (DSS) is that the geographic information system (GIS) designed specifically to analyze spatial information. The Spatial information is any information shown in a map format. The learning team member was informative to elaborate that the GIS infrastructure often includes capturing location specific data to store, manipulate, analyze, and in some way make use of the data for a particular purpose. Learning the traffic control system was the most interesting because of the critical decision-making process to retrieve data to access traffic movement for optimal traffic control strategies The DSS would become an analytical process to determine the type of controller configuration for an efficient outcome objective. The discussion on cybersecurity was an initial consideration an area of interest. Developing a course of action to counteract cybersecurity from hacker and infrastructure breaches would need a structured process. Constructing a critical complex network infrastructure, the use of the DSS will help leaders and team members with searching retrieving, and analyzing data to summarize main
Technology and computers have revolutionized many of the aspects of our lives. Many professions and businesses have used technology to their advantage and completely changed industries. One profession that has drastically changed because of computers and technology is cartography or mapmaking. The impact of technology on geographic information and mapmaking has led to new techniques and skills for these now computer-based jobs and careers. New technologies such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the Global Positioning System (GPS) have emerged in mapmaking. There are also new Internet-based map services including MapQuest and MapBlast as well as other digital maps.
Geographical information system (or GIS) is a type of information system used for collecting data to analyze and to generate maps. In a sense, data is collected from different regions to be placed on a map to study and learn the results. This data can be a tax assessor's office that produces land use map for appraisers and planners to another part of the spectrum, where a wastewater department decides the most important areas of repair of the water system after a natural disaster. Different types of businesses from marketing to the police department will use GIS to track different information but perhaps in the same map.
With the use and application of geospatial technology becoming increasingly common, I predict the inevitable future of GEOINT is in mobile/web applications, and the most dominant platforms will be hand-held devices such as Android, iOS, and front-end websites. The next few years will be a game changer in the sense that Web/Mobile GIS will blur the line between savvy GIS analysts and the non-GIS specialist. We are moving to a developer’s type platform rather than one specific for geospatial specialists. The gap between the novice and the expert will need to be filled with web technology such as web programming languages HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript.
To put in a nutshell there are lots of tools which can be thoroughly used for maintaining an excellent web portal and the combination of PHP and MySQL provides an ardent measure to have good hold of data and simulate its operation. The synchronization of data precedence and its handling is handled quite well in the open source environment that imbibes two most popular and competent front end and back end tools which make it quite a potent tool to handle sophisticated data. And what adds more to it is the interface that comprehends more to business oriented dashboards that acclimatize to the high marking on quality and technology.
A GIS or Geographic Information System joins together programming, fittings and data for examining, overseeing and catching all topographical structures to show as reference data. The acronym GIS is additionally used for Geospatial Information Studies that alludes to the scholarly study or teach that works alongside land data framework. In the layman's terms, GIS intimates the joining of measurable dissection, cartography and the database innovation. It has the ability to relate data from numerous diverse sources and fuse it into one database programming.
The most common application of GIS is concerned with environmental issues with half of all GIS work undertaken since the 1980s worldwide having been related to environmental or rural issues including GIS (Antunes, et al., 2001). This prominent role has been attributed to the fact that GIS can answer questions that are central to the EIA process which according to ESRI (1995) are
Geographic Information System or GIS provides the IT professionals the tools to create “smart maps,” maps that knew a circle represented a sampling point, a rectangle represented a building and a long curvy line represented a road (Hammond, 2006). “Mapifying” data sets identifies the uniqueness of each process involves in data trail. Therefore, a project manager should understand the collision of each process and each process evaluates its success. Understanding what comprises success for the database manager is also vital for the project manager. One of the project manager’s roles is to understand how each process collides with the others for this will help in gathering the suitable team and makes communication easier.
Wright, D. J., 2012. Theory and application in a post GISystems world. International Journal of Geographic Information Science, 26(12), pp. 2197-2209.
In a particular case study of “Sun County”, the real location name was changed for confidentiality purposes; the implementation of a new GIS (Geographic Information System) was followed for several years in order to focus on the process of e-government rather than the outcome or outputs that other research has focused on (Tsai, Choi, & Perry, 2009). The goal of the new GIS database was for the Department's staff to have the ability to enter data into the GIS database, run reports, and generate maps in a real time manner from their own workstations; this would allow them to provide a high level of service without having to allocate a lot of resources. Another goal of the project was to ease the decision making process of management by giving them the ability to perform analyses to better understand County resources and circumstances (Tsai, Choi, & Perry, 2009).