THE CITY
Online Navigational
Environmental City
Information via GIS
Marc Bonazountas
Joerg Schaller
Despina Kallidromitou
ESRI, NTUA, ILI, Cities of Antwerp,Athens, Munich
The City
 Project partners
ESRI GmbH Germany
NTUA Greece
ILI Engeneers Germany
City of Antwerp
City of Athens
City of Munich
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The City
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Delivers a validated GIS software
technology (tool-kit) which is utilised
by city departments and other
interested parties to develop cityrelated environmental applications as
environmental maps on demand &
city environmental navigation
however operational on the Internet
via any commercial browser
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The City
Deliverables:
The city GIS Internet developers Tool Kit
Two Applications of the Tool Kit
 environmental maps on demand
 city environmental navigation & routing info
 guidance & user;s manual for the 2 applications
three Validations (Antwerpen, Munich, Athens)
dissemination & exploitation strategy and Plan
Production of a demonstator on a CD -ROM
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The City
Technologies:
Standard ESRI GIS internet technologies enhanced
by the THE_CITY developer Tool-Kit.
ARC/INFO
SDE
ArcView
Map Objects Internet Map Server
JAVA technologies (J++, IMS Java classes, JDK,
Visual Café, J-Builder)
Web interfacing of GIS applications written in Java
can draw major advantages of using Web-serversided Java (Java serv-lets)
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MapObjects Internet Map
Server (IMS):
IS
IS
IS
Internet
IS
GIS
technologische
Barriere
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Integration by GIS !
GIS
Locational data
ID
1 ID
2 1
3 2
3
Attributes
ID
1
2
3
Budget
Parcel data
Traffic
Social
Data
Environment
Infrastructure
Population
9
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MapObjects Internet Map
Server (IMS):
SQL-Navigation
VRML-Navigation
GIS-Navigation
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Work packages
 USER
Requirements
 System Architecture
 Technology development
 Demonstrations,
Validations
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User Requirements
USER Requirements are based
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methodological information
 interviews
 review of the literature
 feedback from similar EU projects
 interviews with municipalities
 interaction with other telematics projects
 contacts with GIS & s/w producers
 contacts with credits agencies (VISA)
 additional sources
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ESRI, NTUA, ILI, Cities of Antwerp,Athens, Munich
System Architecture
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Multi tiered
Client Server Architecture
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Toolkit Functions
Loading Tools
-Browsers
-Parameters
-Data Conversion,
Import
Data Processing
Tools
-Buffering, Intersect
-Arc View
Data Navigation Tools
-Browsers
-Application Server
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Software Components
Client
HTML Browser, -JAVA-Applet for status information and
special functions
Application Server Components
-Map Objects (MO) IMS and wrapper classes
-Application Server Scenarios (appl. Server logic, appl
projects, appl objects) Geodata sources, Geodata server
(SDE), Metadata
Webserver
-HTML sources, Java applets classes
Infrastructure
-TCP-IP Network, DNS Services, Routing services,
firewall (Internet), Security services, billing services
hardware
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Tool-Kit Applications

Distribution of Environmental city information
(habitat quality, air quality, noise distribution,
traffic emmissions)
 environmental modelling (air pollution model,
noise calculation, habitat balancing)
 disribution of environmental educational data
(maps of different air pollutants, parks, green
areas, environmental reduction programs)
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Tool-Kit Tools
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Pan-Zoom through multiple map layers
 display data using classifications, graduated symbols
 ESRI shape files, ARC/INFO coverages, SDE layers
 variety of image formats
 perform spatial analysis and query
 perform on-line network navigation
 use relational DB and SQL queries
 perform address matching & geocoding
 track real time events with GPS
 pay via the Internet
 open system in terms of data
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Munich - the city
partner
project goals
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Environment Information
Global Aims
Decision aid for administration
 Up-to-date information for the public
 Dissemination of basic information
 In-depth-Information for specialists
 Strengthening
"environment and health awareness"
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Project goals mapserver
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Platform and OS indepence
"best viewed with any browser"
Real-time internationalization
modular application design
Embedded Documentation (xml), perl
Standard ArcView for Map Prototyping
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Project goals cdrom data
 geographical
data encryption
 viewers on WinNT platform
 seamless integration of online
internet data
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Project goals
Licensing/interface
Open Source
 GNU Copyleft or
 Perl Artistic License
for MAPSERVER
 open, standardized XML-Interface
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Software
ArcInfo 7.2.1
 ArcView 3.01
 MapObjects 1.2
 MoIMS 1.0
 Apache/M$-IIS Webserver
 Oracle 7/Access-ODBC database
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SGML w. emacs/perl for documents
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Applications
ArcInfo sectoral GIS information
system of the city
 ArcView prototyping for
mapserver
 mapserver reading odbs
 CGI/database address-matching
 SGML document handling system
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Demonstrations
Validations
Telepolis
City of Antwerp
Navigational map for routing
Implementation of Environmental
Information for route selection
User interface for Info Kiosks
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ESRI, NTUA, ILI, Cities of Antwerp,Athens, Munich
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Demonstrations
Validations
City of
Athens
Remote Internet access
Navigational city database
Online Air Quality Reporting and
healthy routing proposals
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City of Athens
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Demonstrations
Validations
City of Munich
Emissions, Immissions
Environmental maps on demand
Healthy and educational Bycicle Routing
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Project status
Environmental GIS in daily use
 Mapserver prototyping
 Mapserver up and running
 SGML document environment in
daily use
 Cadasdral map of munich in work
 Navigational Bicycle map of Munich
in work
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The City
Innovation:
on-line use of navigational GIS
on-line billing and security system
packaging of a generic tool-kit
portability to evolving needs & interoperability of the
tool-kit
efficient operation on the Internet
metadata features
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Benefits:
world citizens have a demand for gratis ,
on-line and navigational information to
be obtained by standard Internet
browsers
Citizens use systems only when they can
access and get at no cost
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Thank You
For Your Attention
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