Map-Usage with GCIS

Routing in GCIS Maps

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These examples demonstrate the Shortest and/or Fastest Routes facility of GCIS. You can click on the images below to see the screen captures of this application. These images are showing different stages of Routing in Maharashtra map.

Click on the links (given on left side) to work LIVE on the maps of Maharashtra, Pune and India.
1. Maharashtra Map 2. Pune City Map 3. India Map

Maps prepared with Smart Label Module

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GeoConcept has created the Smart Label feature which automatically moves labels, or changes their shape or size so as to ensure that all the labels can be read in full, for any object that is even partially visible on a given map-viewing window. When the map is zoomed or panned from side to side, the labels do not get truncated when the viewing window is changed, since they are no longer stuck to to the map in a fixed size and shape. The Smart Label Editor is is a unique utility available only from GeoConcept GIS, and is very useful when the maps are being used by people who may not be able to recognise the locations without being able to read the label. Note that once they are Edited, Smart Labels are built into the map, and require no special capability in the GIS.

Pune City Map with Smart Labels

A better interface with more features (JAVA Applets)

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These web pages use JUMP (Java Unlimited Map Processing) Java Appets. You can click on the images above to see the screen captures of these applications. Click on the links to work LIVE on the maps. Ensure that your browser is a JAVA enabled web browser
Maharashtra-General	India-General	Pune District Cash & Vegetable Flow	Logistics and Marketing

Note: Ensure that your browser is a JAVA enabed web browser. If it is not Java enabled, click here to download JRE from Sun's website. Then you would need to install that.

Professional Version of GCIS

You can create Thematics & Objects remotely. (JAVA Applets)
Thematic Analyses	Help	Editing Maps	Help
India	Maharashtra	Maharashtra	Digitise on top of a raster in WebGIS

You can create Color Ranges, Bar & Pie charts on the India map.	You can create Color Ranges, Bar & Pie charts on the Maharashtra map.	You can create new objects and edit the geometry and the data of the existing objects.	You can digitise objects on top of a raster, modify their geometry and enter data for them.
These web pages use JUMP (Java Unlimited Map Processing) Java Appets. You can click on the images to see the screen captures of these applications. Click on the links to work LIVE on the maps. Ensure that your browser is a JAVA enabed web browser. If you do not have that click on this link to download JRE from Sun's website. Then you would need to install that.

Digitising on top of a Raster

Digitising on top of a Raster using Professional Version of GCIS. (JAVA Applets).	Help

These web pages use JUMP (Java Unlimited Map Processing) Java Appets. You can click on the images to see the screen captures of these applications. Click on the links to work LIVE on the maps. Ensure that your browser is a JAVA enabed web browser. If you do not have that click on this link to download JRE from Sun's website. Then you would need to install that.

Some Applications of GCIS - The Web Server from GeoConcept

Using the GeoConcept Internet Server in DISASTER Management - A case study of NAGAPATTINAM Help
	A case study of Nagapattinam - Using a WEB GIS in Disaster Management- we can disseminate the same information to everyone, without further attention from critically busy Control Room. Effective use of GIS in advance of any actual event enables one to plan the pre-deployment of things in the right place – telecom equipment, shelters, medicine, jeeps; also to micro-manage information in the post-disaster period - identify the most vulnerable locations; direct traffic onto the routes that are open, etc.; and finally to provide monitoring and evaluation support in the long-term for rehabilitation.
This example demonstrate some of the applications of GCIS. You can click on the image to see the screen capture of this application. Click on the link to work LIVE on the map or click here to download the PowerPoint Presentation of this application.

Please Read this before working on the Maps

To start with, we would suggest you use the Vision Version of GCIS to "Find a City". This can be done on the India Map or on the map of Maharashtra. On these maps you can GoTo any location (i.e. cause it to be centred), by giving its name. You can also zoom, pan, and Click to obtain some information about each location. Alternatively you can browse the Pune City map, in which we have specifically made addressable the Cinemas, Hotels, Restaurants andHospitals Asking for any map-object by name causes it to be centred; clicking on any object causes some information to be displayed (on the bottom left-hand side). { These are illustrative only; all kinds of other options could have been designed into the system.} The GCIS software ( in HTML & Javascript) can be used with any special-purpose map to provide convenient, quick and easy-to-use retrieval of mapped information. Wherever we have a well-defined data-set to be retrieved, this is the preferred mode of operation since it is fast, easy to navigate and easy to read - and inexpensive.

We have also included other (numbered) Vision version applications. These have been coded in Java, and provide many more capabilities to the user. Because of this, they are less suitable for persons who just need simple information quickly. At the same time, the opportunity to view the full attribute data table for any map-object, as well as the ability to create logical and geographic "selections" of map-objects, makes these applications more powerful, and therefore more relevant for certain types of user-groups. Designing the application assumes more importance here, so that it meets precisely the users' needs.

Capabilities available from the (Java-coded) Vision version of GCIS include:-

Viewing Base Maps and Thematic maps by selecting from a tabbed set of already-prepared map-windows.
Zooming to one of the 12 preset zoom levels with corresponding selective display of different map-objects at different zoom levels;
Pan - using the Inset map, the cursor, or goto preset locations;
Pop-up info-box with selected data, as well as viewing the Full attribute table for each map-object.
Creating "selections" of map-objects based on geographic contiguity and logical conditions on map-object-attributes.

You may need to read the HELP notes first. Click on the Map on which you want to work. The Java Applet (~500 Kb) may take a minute or two to load, if you are using a dial-up connection.

The Professional Version has two sub-options, In Thematic analysesyou can - in a very user-friendly manner - construct Choropleths, Bar Charts and Pie Charts on the Maps. with Legends, using the currently selected set of map-objects. Editing Maps allows you to create new map-objects and to edit the maps and attribute data online. You will need to refer to the HELP notes. (To read the Client-Side Requirements click here.) The Professional Version does require some GIS and GC knowhow.

For Thematic analysis, we have provided the India map (with Census data and the locations of industries) and the map of Maharashtra (with Census data and locations of industries). Note that in the real-world of applications, the maps available would be carefully-edited, in fact special-purpose, and the attribute data would be carefully selected and updated according to the needs of the MIS they are intended to support. {The objective obviously would be to limit the amount of data that has to be sent to the browser from the server, while simplifying the task of the user at his browser, and enhancing the information-content of map-displays.

In general, a major investiment would need to be made in the Base Map and Map-design, as well as in the process of keeping the map uptodate, and the options provided to the user.} The Editing option would be implemented mainly as an in-house service for, e.g. organisations in the map-making business, such as Telecom companies, Electricity-water-sewerage-Transportation (Utility) companies, Survey organisations, Urban managements and Planning agencies, and Policing agencies which are subject to frequent changes in their picture of the real-world. so as to speed up the process of obtaining rapid feedback from the field, and of disseminating updated maps to the field. It is unlikely that Editing would be made available to all internet users.