Geographic Information System (GIS) is a collection of applications whose tasks include (collaborating with other systems and) gathering geographic data, store and process spatio–temporal data (geo-data) and share the derived geographic knowledge with the users and other applications. Some of the most important routine applications of GIS are spatial analysis, digital elevation model (DEM) anal...

Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) applications such as congestion and traffic management employ Global Positioning Systems (GPS) technology to collect positioning data in two or three dimensions of events, incidents, or vehicles. This information is integrated with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to determine the roadway upon which events and incidents occur, point features such as t...

This article presents the outcome of an experimental process with the students of a Landscape Architecture university. We propose a multimedia geotagging system to help landscape architects during the analysis stage of a Landscape Architecture project. Our solution is specifically adapted to landscape architects requirements. Multimedia; geotagging; GIS; landscape visualization; Internet servic...

Safety and security and considered a critical issue in railways. Applying geographic information system (GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) in the railway becomes very important. Web-based GIS makes it easy to exchange information and create better public communication through the Web site. It helps to plan for a trip by checking train times, stations and different lines between stations....

The progressive consolidation of information technologies on a large scale has been facilitating and progressively increasing the production, collection, and diffusion of geographic data, as well as facilitating the integration of a large amount of external information into geographic information systems (GIS). Traditional GIS is transforming into a consolidated information infrastructure. This...

Government and local government have to hurry up to build accessible facilities for elderly people and people with disabilities. Because our country is experiencing an aging society, for example, pedestrian space should be safe and give a relief. However, it is difficult for everyone to easily know the route from the present place to a destination safely and at ease. One of the methods to solve...

The generation of human-friendly GIS/GPS interfaces is an open field aiming at the development of tools that allow non-expert users to reap maximum profit from the integration of GIS and GPS technologies. This project uses GeoMedia objects to develop an integrated system for both planning field-sampling tasks and for GPS guided navigating. All field properties are recorded in a spatial database...

Archaeology is one of the sectors that can benefit by new surveying techniques (i.e. those ones related to the use of GPS) for the representation and the management of an archaeological site. Another aspect of the archaeological sector that can take advantage from the use of both GPS and GIS instruments is guided visits of archaeological sites. Today, during visits in museums, visitors often us...