2 There are many promotion ways, and Web-based GIS is one of them. Web-based
GIS is a cheap and effective technology to promote tourism information for widespread of people with time constraint.
The study presented in this paper starts from the user needs, to present the tourism object in geographic context on interactive tourist maps supports planning for
tourism, focusing on decisions making and management using GIS technique and presenting the results on the internet.
1.2. Objectives
The main objective of this research is to build Web-based GIS Information System that provides spatial and non-spatial tourism information via Internet
environment.
II. Literature review
2.1. Geographical Information System. 2.2. Web-GIS Technology
2.3. Available Web-GIS Software Component 2.4. Database
2.5. Database Model
III Research Methodology 3.1. Time And Location of Study
This research is conducted from January to June 2006 at Bogor Agricultural
University. The location of study is East Java – Indonesia. 3.2. User Identification
There are two categories of user: tourist and manager.
3.3. User Needs
What needs of uses can be shown as questionnaire list below:
Tourism Manager
- Where is the city, state or country located?
- What is the climate? It has warm or cold weather?
- When is the best time of year to visit? - Where are the hotels and guesthouse in
- Where are areas that tourists are interested in?
- What are the physical- geographic Characteristics of
those areas? - What are the demographic and
3 the city located? What is their
classification? - What kinds of public transportation are
available? - Where are the culturalnatural showing
located? - What attractive places are near hotel?
- Where are the banks? - Where are the shopping centers?
socio-economic characteristics of the local population of each
tourist space? - What infrastructure services are
in current and potential tourism areas?
- Whats about service quality? - What are the tourism demands
for tourism service?
3.4. Required Data
There are two types of data used in this research: Non-spatial tourism data, spatial tourism data road, tourism object, administrative boundary, tourism facility, etc.
3.5. Required Tools Hardware
: PC Mobile AMD processor 2800+, 512 MB DDR RAM, 40 GB Harddisk.
Software:
AutoCAD Map 2000i, ArcView GIS 3.3, Map Server 4.4, PhpMapScript 4.4, Apache version 2.0.5, PHP version 4.3.7, Mysql 4.1.9, PhpMyAdmin 2.6.1, Microsoft
FrontPage 2000, MacroMedia Flash MX, Javascript.
3.6. Methods 3.6.1. Web-GIS Development Cycle
This system was analyzed and designed based on Web-GIS Development Cycle.
Figure 1. Web GIS Development Cycle Alesheikh Helali 2001
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Client
Web Server User
Web Browser HTTP
Map Application Server Mapserver 4.4
Application Server PHP
MySql Database Map File
Graphical User Interface
PHP Pages, Java Script, Java Applet, and MacroMedia flash
Shape File
3.6.2. Conceptual System Architecture
Figure 2. Conceptual System Architecture
. 3.6.3. Query Work Flow
Figure 3. Query Work Flow
Non-Spatial Database
List of Objects
Spatial Database
Integrated Web-GIS
Transformation Integration
module
Query module
Return map Object id
Query Data
User request Result
User – Web browser
Query Object id
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IV. Results And Discussion 4.1. Web-based GIS tourism Information System
