Service-oriented data integration using GIS: An anchorage management tool for Wenzhou government, China

Abstract

GIS technologies can help officers from local governments in developing countries with spatial information. This project, taking Wenzhou Anchorage Management Information System as an example, presents a framework of heterogeneous data integration to serve the officers who are used to get information from paper maps. We employed VB to integrate spatial and nonspatial data into a software tool that allows user to browse and output information of interest. ArcReader, a GIS data viewer of ArcGIS, ESRI, was introduced in the information system for the users to deal with feature layers. It received good evaluation from the users in Wenzhou and promises wider application to more users. © 2012 Springer-Verlag GmbH.