The present study aims to design, develop, operate and evaluate a social media GIS (Geographical Information Systems) specially tailored to mash-up the information that local residents and governments provide to support information utilization from normal times to disaster outbreak times in order to promote disaster reduction. The conclusions of the present study are summarized in the following...

Since ancient times, men had the necessity to catch, model and store information. An important part of the information field is the one concerned with geographical and spatial matters. In general, geographic (or geospatial) information is created by manipulating geographic (or spatial) data. Nowadays, geospatial information can be stored, manipulated and queried within special informatics syste...

Large amounts of information can be overwhelming and costly to process, especially when transmitting data over a network. A typical modern Geographical Information System (GIS) brings all types of data together based on the geographic component of the data and provides simple point-and-click query capabilities as well as complex analysis tools. Querying a Geographical Information System, howeve...

Agent-based modeling (ABM) is quickly becoming a choice tool for researchers, as it is very adept at modeling natural phenomena. Spatial data has the ability to further increase the usefulness of an ABM. One way that this can be achieved is through the inclusion of geographical information system (GIS) data. Such integration between ABM and GIS may sound trivial, but it is difficult to do effec...

The geographical information system (GIS) revolution started in the mid 1980s and has since snread to all countries of the world. A GIS is a comput&software package that is concerned with the capture, storage, manipulation, query, display and analysis of any and all types of geographical information, (BLJRROUGH, 1986; CHORLEY, 1987; LAURINI & THOMPSON, 1992; ESRI, 1993). There are now many diff...

Development of information technology in the field of spatial data processing has helped many digital mapping. In the present study, the authors will empower geographic information systems (GIS) for geographic data processing potential Banyuasin district. The potential of the region are agriculture, farming, and industry. The method used to develop the GIS is the waterfall approach models. Afte...

Surveillance of fatal disease increasingly realise on geographic information (Spatial and Temporal factors). We develop a web based geographical information system for online dengue and DHF mapping that is distributed, loosely coupled, interoperable and ultimately provide a real time, dynamic way to represent disease information on map. Hospital have access to password protected data entry func...