Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning of applications of GIS which grant legitimacy to indigenous geographical knowledge as well as to ‘offi cial’ spatial data. By incorporating various forms of community participation these newer framings of Geographical Information Systems as ‘Participatory GIS’ (PGIS) offer a response to the critiques of GIS which were prevalent in the 1990s. This paper r...

Mobile information community develops quickly, as mobile telecommunication technology matches to the third generation. XML-based GIS becomes a global standard and the foundation. Recent developed Geography Markup Language (GML) allows integration of GIS location-based services, telematics, and intelligent transportation systems. In this paper, we propose a tourism information system for support...

While the open source movement already plays in the field of operating systems a significant role, many GIS users know about open source Geographical Information Systems. A number of GIS related projects have been launched the last years with different focus. The paper introduces the major open source GIS GRASS with emphasis on recent developments. Moreover three other projects are described, w...

The article is devoted to the description of web-GIS for mapping fire regimes in Pechora-Ilych reserve and its environs. main purpose resource provide results designated area a wide range researchers an accessible form. Web-GIS allows organizing storing received thematic spatial data. performs research educational functions. structure includes following sections: study area, frequency indicator...

In the GIS(Geospatial Information System) Web Services, SOAP/MTOM shows best performance when transferring large size of data between services. SOAP/MTOM uses XOP for message optimizing method, so data serialization and deserialization time is reduced. Additionally, integrating Ajax(Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) approach into GIS visualization Web Services have performance enhancement, becau...

The Web has become a new medium which can display geographical information in rich forms and offer user-friendly interfaces. One of the promising trends in current Geographical Information System (GIS) is the use of Web 3D technology, especially VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling language). As one of the most fundamental geographical information, terrain information is often presented as the base f...

Geographic Information System (GIS) has long been essential tool for governments, environmental institutions, military and others who depend on geographic information. GIS combines layers of data about a location to create a fuller and more accurate picture of that location. These data are obtained from different sources in different formats, datum and coordinate systems. The problem of traditi...