Development of WebGIS framework for Indian technical institutes using open source GIS tools

Abstract

Technical Institutes management programs include development of community in which each and every aspect of information of Indian Technical Institutes is conserved and managed properly, to serve a public without affecting the geological location of institutes and for refining the admission process in institutes. Modern technologies like Geographic Information System (GIS), Remote Sensing and Global Positioning System (GPS) can be integrated to develop a well organized planning procedure for Indian Technical Institutes management. The Web GIS provides a fast way to represent information about the Indian Technical Institutes Management via maps, statistics and existing records. Open Source GIS tools or software's has the tremendous capacity to deal with large amount of raster as well as vector database. The present study uses the Quantum GIS, an Open Source GIS tool's capability for Web GIS based applications in particular to Indian Technical Institutes management. The present study also deals with creation of geodatabase of the top Indian technical colleges like Indian Institutes of Technology, National Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Information Technology, other reputed engineering colleges and implements ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) technology using open source software Quantum GIS, Geo Server and Apache Tomcat server. This will help in extending the benefit of GIS and Web technology, for Indian Technical Institute Management, available in the particular area for preparation of the master plan and other development plans.