User-centered metropolitan spatial service infrastructure: Web GIS for society

Author

Wang, Gang ; Zhang, Tong

Author_Institution

Sch. of Resource & Environ. Sci., Wuhan Univ., Wuhan, China

fYear

2009

fDate

23-24 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

268

Lastpage

272

Abstract

Although geographic information systems (GISystems) have been widely used in both public and private sectors, geographic information is still not effectively used by common citizens for their everyday´s life. A metropolitan spatial service infrastructure (MSSI) is a new vision to build a societal GIS allowing every citizen to create, share, and use geographic information and services. We propose our vision of MSSI and introduce a demonstration of Tianjin guide portal which implements the MSSI idea and conceptual framework. The user-centered design can encourage the development of rich user-oriented services tailed for personalized needs.

Keywords

Internet; geographic information systems; user centred design; Tianjin guide portal; Web GIS; geographic information system; geospatial data sharing; user-centered design; user-centered metropolitan spatial service infrastructure; Cities and towns; Decision making; Geographic Information Systems; Government; Portals; Remote sensing; Resource management; Switches; Urban planning; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Society, 2009. SWS '09. 1st IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Lanzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4157-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4158-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SWS.2009.5271807

Filename

5271807