Web-GIS-Based Interface for a UBA Selected Village

Abstract

The Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (UBA) mission is to enable people of higher educational institutions, work along with people of rural areas by identifying their development challenges and evolving solutions for accelerating sustainable growth. Planners and policy makers have to depend on spatial infrastructure and non-spatial data for effective planning and decision-making. The Web-GIS with integration of both spatial and non-spatial data, i.e. household data which helps in extending the information accessibility for rural mass and the administrators in planning development activities as well as monitoring different rural programs by the government. This aim of this work is to provide interactive geospatial database, which helps in accessing the household information including spatial data for Ramulapalli village of Kannuru gram panchayat selected under UBA program. Household survey data as non-spatial data, and google earth image as Spatial data integrated into Geospatial environment and provide through web interface. Web-based interface, containing information that is helpful planning in development activities has been developed using MapGuide open source platform.