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change of the fiscal relationship was to benefit the province or if the structure of local government had simply become outdated, the issues of why the reforms occurred is not the focus of this research.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.
Isuzu Australia Limited has been marketing Isuzu trucks for about a quarter of a century. The corporation promised to deliver premium product from the Australian market and have been successful thus far. The company vision, according to (Isuzu Australia Limited, 2010), “To be Australia’s No.1 Truck company with a dedication to excellence environmental practices and an unrivalled focus on Customer Care” (para. 3). When the company first started, all information was distributed manually and it was expensive and time consuming. Nowadays, the company uses a WebSphere Portal, which is inexpensive and saves the employees time. The Web Portal is consider a groupware or collaboration system and there are some challenges implementing this method within the company. The difference between dashboards and scorecards, in ways Isuzu Australia can used them, also will be discussed.
This section provides an overview and a brief description of the system design. The system structure, the database design, and the user interface
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.
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Web IS. The importance of web led the classical information systems to transform in order to integrate with web technologies. This means that a web application can access an organization’s dataset. And as we mentioned above, this integration creates new data issues, like security and accessibility.
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The information system that will be evaluated in this paper is from Malaysia. This information system is used by one of the government department in Malaysia. The government department involved is Department of Survey and Mapping Malaysia or in Malay Jabatan Ukur dan Pemetaan Malaysia (JUPEM). JUPEM started in 1885 and actually one of the earliest departments in Malaysia where it main purpose is to perform survey and mapping activities within Malaysia and also country international boundaries. The vision of establishment of JUPEM is to make JUPEM an important organization that provide survey and mapping services outstandingly and together with geospatial data management to accomplish the nation’s vision.
Geographers plan new communities, decide where new highways should be placed, and establish evacuation plans. Computerized mapping and data analysis is known as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), a new frontier in geography. Spatial data is gathered on a variety of subjects and input onto a computer. GIS users can create an infinite number of maps by requesting portions of the data to plot.
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.
As applications of geospatial technologies continuously break the disciplinary barrier, the need for books on these technologies to reach diverse audiences is greater than ever. The challenge, however, is to write a book on this complicated subject that incorporates the knowledge of multiple disciplines and makes it valuable for those who may or may not have diverse educational backgrounds, but require using these technologies. Most books on geospatial technologies target a specific audience. Contrary to this, Geographical Information Science tries to target three different audiences (users, students, and engineers) by using formats and languages comfortable to them. While this effort is laudable, maintaining the balance and attractiveness to all the three audiences is challenging. The author, Narayan Panigrahi, has accomplished this balancing act but with mixed outcomes. His computer science background is clearly seen in the structure and contents of the chapters.
The geographic information is converted into linked geospatial data, for exposing, sharing and connecting resources in the web. For example, a geographical feature described in the data has a URI with links pointing to other geographical features based on their geospatial relation. The knowledge model and catalogue model of the datasets (metadata) is changed according to the developments in the field of semantic web to accommodate details that are necessary for pattern recognition and subsequent linking .The SDI should use open data...
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Building a GIS system from the ground up is a very time consuming and extremely expensive venture. This is why only large metropolitan areas have developed or are developing GIS systems.