Abstract
Abstract. "E-government" is a leading trend in public sector activities in recent years. The Survey of Israel set as a vision to provide all of its services and datasets online. The TopoCad system is the latest software tool developed in order to unify a number of services and databases into one on-line and user friendly system. The TopoCad system is based on Web 1.0 technology; hence the customer is only a consumer of data. All data and services are accessible for the surveyors and geo-information professional in an easy and comfortable way. The future lies in Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 technologies through which professionals can upload their own data for quality control and future assimilation with the national database. A key issue in the development of this complex system was to implement a simple and easy (comfortable) user experience (UX). The user interface employs natural language dialog box in order to understand the user requirements. The system then links spatial data with alpha-numeric data in a flawless manner. The operation of the TopoCad requires no user guide or training. It is intuitive and self-taught. The system utilizes semantic engines and machine understanding technologies to link records from diverse databases in a meaningful way. Thus, the next generation of TopoCad will include five main modules: users and projects information, coordinates transformations and calculations services, geospatial data quality control, linking governmental systems and databases, smart forms and applications. The article describes the first stage of the TopoCad system and gives an overview of its future development.
Highlights
In the last two decades, we have witnessed the internet revolution as a "disruptive technology" influencing work activity patterns
At the same time we have witnessed the proliferation of location-based services (LBS) and their integration with IT systems
The Survey of Israel (SOI) databases contain a variety of data types including alpha – numeric datasets, vector-spatial databases, raster data, images and aerial photographs, and scanned surveying and cadastral documents
Summary
In the last two decades, we have witnessed the internet revolution as a "disruptive technology" influencing work activity patterns. At the same time we have witnessed the proliferation of location-based services (LBS) and their integration with IT systems. LBS utilise geographic information systems and GPS and unify the processes of search and retrieval of spatial data. Additional examples for public systems that integrate LBS and information technologies include: The American Geo Spatial platform at http://www.geoplatform.gov which is a publically accessible information portal which provides geographic information of US public agencies. The Victorian Government in Australia developed an Electronic Conveyance (EC) system for online settlement and lodgement at http://www.ec.land.vic.gov.au/ec/index.html. This project allows real estate transactions on the web. The project's goal is to provide an on-line access to all the database applications and computing services of the Survey of Israel. The project is a continuation of a set of on-line computing projects as describes in Szancer, Felus and Lavan (2012), and it is a key component of the Israeli Spatial Data Infrastructure as describe in Srebro, Felus and Tal (2010)
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