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Railway and highway bridges are an expensive and important part of the land transport infrastructure. They represent a major investment for society where an important part of that investment goes to the inspection and maintenance. Safe and efficient mobility of goods and people require periodic monitoring and maintenance of all transportation infrastructure assets including bridge. Due to high level of spatial data handling capabilities, GIS technology is considered being increasingly for the implementation in many infrastructures planning and management system, particular in bridge management systems. There has been an increasing need for geospatial information that is delivered through internet technologies.
The main objective of this research is to develop a Web Based GIS(WBGIS) tool that provides real time and accurate information for bridge maintenance management. This accomplished by integration of GIS, internet and Database. The coordinates collected by GPS was transformed into shapefile by using QGIS. The application was developed using openLayers and GeoExt,the Apacha Tomcat and Geoserverthe technology. It used as a Web Server and Map Server respectively were configured with Postgresql that consisted a bundle of postgis for geospatial information.
The result found that a full web based application is capable of providing map searching tool that display map with a meaningful information and allows users to visualize, control, interact, evaluate and manage bridges information. The study concluding that web based GIS application can provide map functions as those provided with desktop GIS application, more value of being remotely accessible. General, any computer can access the information gathered by GIS without having GIS software installed on it. |
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