Project: Design and Implementation of Web-Based Graphic User Interfaces for Geographic Information Systems
Student Researchers: Tnitra Shanai King, Dana Marie Moore
Advisor: Huiming Yu
Institution: North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University




The World-Wide-Web (WWW) has grown vary fast since its inception in the early 90s. Recent development of the Internet has greatly enhanced the dissemination of information and computing resources. Connecting WWW to Geographic Information Systems and providing user friendly environments is an attractive research area.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) contain rich and diverse information that is stored in formats including tables, images, and text. Typical GIS software maintains, manipulates, and displays this information in dynamic and graphical ways. GIS and WWW are two independently developed application areas consequently, WWW users can not use GIS information directly. With the recent popularity of World Wide Web (WWW) technology developers have discovered a need to build linkages between the two distinct worlds of the GIS and the WWW. In doing so, the wealth of information available in the GIS world becomes publicly available through the WWW.

In this research we propose to develop friendly, initiative, simple and easy to use Web-Based Graphic User Interfaces that will provide a user friendly environment to help users retrieve the rich GIS information.