Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of free and open source (FOSS) geographic information system (GIS) software within the broader contexts of the open source software movement and developments in GIS, and pose the question of whether libraries and academic departments should consider adopting FOSS GIS. Design/methodology/approach – The process of creating a basic them...

In the 21st Century, disasters have severe negative impacts on cities worldwide. Given significant casualties and property damage caused by disasters, it is necessary for disaster management organizations public to enhance urban management. As an effective method, BIM (Building Information Modeling)–GIS (Geographic System) integration can significantly improve Despite significance of BIM–GIS in...

While the integration of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Multicriteria Decision Aiding (MCDA) has attracted increasing interest from researchers in recent years, due to the wide array of applications that can benefit from GIS as well as the different types of decision problems and various models that can be used through MCDA, plenty of opportunities of integrating GIS and MCDA remain...

The development and economic growth of a nation is closely related to its available transportation system. Good and efficient road transport infrastructure facilities will promote industrial and socio-economic development. To provide safety and comfort to road users, a comprehensive road maintenance schedule must be formulated and adopted to ensure those roads are in good condition at all times...

Free Open Source Software: FOSS based Geographic Information System: GIS for spatial retrievals of appropriate locations for ocean wind and tidal motion utilizing electric power generation plants is proposed. Using scatterometer onboard earth observation satellites, strong wind coastal areas are retrieved with FOSS/GIS of PostgreSQL/GIS. PostGIS has to be modified together with altimeter and sc...

High-resolution images available on Google Earth are increasingly being consulted in geographic studies. However, most studies limit themselves to visualizations or on-screen measurements. Google Earth allows users to create points, lines and polygons on-screen, which can be saved as KML files. Here, the use of R statistics freeware is proposed to easily convert these files to the shapefile for...

Component Based Software Engineering has one main sole motive of making the development process of software systems as easy as possible and to achieve this objective work needs to be done in previous systems to identify the concerns and limitations which can be overcome using this software engineering based approach. In this paper to support concept of component based system a domain is chosen ...