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...

We present a GIS database of solar radiation and photovoltaic (PV) potential estimations of 10 European Union Candidate Countries. The database has been integrated with a web application to provide support to decision-makers, researchers and industry in addressing national/regional PV development plans. An application was developed to browse and query GIS maps and to do a simple calculation for...

Today information systems play key role in new century, geographical information system (GIS) as a special class of information system. Now we are moving wired to wireless network, that is mobile environment shown in fig2 (any where any time and any thing computing), plays key role in this new century. In this application mobile GIS, which will be a network environment, is proposed, which can p...

Recent communication technologies (Internet, GSM, GPRS, PDA, GPS) have implied new GIS-based applications called telegeoprocessing applications [2]. This new type of systems concerns fields such as : · Internet access to geographic data using Web Map Server, · Mobile geographic databases, · Traffic monitoring. These new applications have naturally produced new needs in terms of conceptual metho...

by randy K. smith, andrew J. graettinger, ph.d., Kerri Keith and allen parrish introduction The ability of transportation and traffic safety engineers to efficiently and effectively deploy available resources is dependent on their ability to quickly and accurately evaluate existing information. Varied research has indicated the important role geographical information systems (GIS) can play in h...