Application of GIS and Visual Basic in Tourism Information System-a Case Study of Bhubaneswar Muncipal Corporation

Presented bySandeep Pati ,Sasmita Das ,Sukanti Badi ,Sumeet Kumar Shadangi

CED

Introduction

Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. Differrrent types of tourism Importance of tourisim management. Role of GIS in tourism system. The enabling technologies Adopting an integration tool Development of graphical interface

Objective

To develop a Tourist information system of Bhubaneswar Municipality Corporation and to customize the information system using the powerful tools of Visual Basic (VB) and ArcGIS

The following steps should be required to achieved the objective.

Delineation of the Study Area

Mapping the location of the Tourist Places, Roads, Important locations and Junctions

Database creation (Geodatabase)

Development of information system using GUI (Graphical user interface) in VB platform

Integration of VB and Arcmap through Dynamic Data Enterprise (DDE) technology

Creation of package through package and deployment wizard of Microsoft Visual Studio

 

Study Area

Location And Area of Bhubaneswar.

History in Bhubaneswar

Geography and Climate

Economy

Infrastructure

Transport System in Bhubaneswar

Demographics

Culture in Bhubaneswar

Sports

Places around Bhubaneswar

Location And Area of Bhubaneswar

History in Bhubaneswar

Bhubaneswar, the capital of Odisha, also popularly known as the "Temple City of India“

The ancient city is 2600 years old and the modern city came into existence in 1948 as the new capital of Odisha, designed by the German architect O.H. Koeingsberges. .

Bhubaneswar forms one of the vertices of the Golden Triangle the other two being the cities of Puri andKonark.

Geography and Climate

Bhubaneswar is situated between 21° 15' North Latitude 85° 15' Longitude and at an altitude of 45 meters above sea level. Geographically.

The city has a tropical climate; the average temperatures range between a minimum of around 10 °C in the winter to a maximum of 40 °C to 45 °C in summer.

Culture in Bhubaneswar

Bhubaneswar has been a recent awareness towards preserving the ethos of Odia culture in the formof Classical Odissi dance, handicrafts, sand artistry, sculpturing as well as theater and music.

Boundary walls and gardens are increasingly being redone to depict the folk art of the region.

Bhubaneswar is famous for different type of fair & festival.

a) Ashokashtami

b) Adivasi Mela

c) Kalinga Mahotsav

d) shanti Stupa

e) Durga Puja

f) Laxmi Puja

Places around Bhubaneswar

Udaygiri and Khandgiri caves

Dauli

Nandankanan

Konark

Puri

Chilika

Review of Earlier Works

Using GIS And Application For Tourism done by Davod Shojaee.

GIS design and application for tourism done by T. Turk, M. U. Gumusay

GIS applications in tourism planning of GIS 340 – GIS Seminar done by Mr. Wayne Giles

College Information System for Thiruvananthapuram District using application of GIS and VB done by Srija Santhosh, Fasliya K. Aliya

Technical Programme

Design and implementation of a specific GIS project Specific works carried out in the project

Application of Visual Basic

Development of Information System in the Visual Basic (VB) platform

Integration of Visual Basic and Arc Map through DDE Technology

Hyperlinking

Development of Application Product through Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) technology

Web browser tool

Building Information as a package

Design and Implementation of a GIS Project IMPLEMENTATION OF A

SPECIFICSPECIFIC GIS PROJECT Building and designing a geodatabase

Data representation models

Spatial data input and data acquisition

Attribute data input

Map projection

Management and manipulation of data

Presentation of results of analysis

Transportation network map

Tourist destination map

Specific Works Carried out in the Project

GIS Software

Data utilized for the study

Spatial data input

Building and designing a geodatabase

Management and manipulation of data

GIS Software The ESRI GIS software Arc GIS 9.3 is used for these analyses.

Data utilized for the study The base map used for the study is the map published by the

Department of Architecture andRegional Planning, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and West Bengal in their study onPerspective plan for BCUC Vision 2030.

The map was georeferenced with the help of points from the Google Earth.

Building and designing a geodatabase

Sl. No. Feature Class Spatial Data Stored Geometry

1 Boundary

Boundary of the

Bhubaneswar

Municipal Corporation

Polygon

2 RoadMajor Road Network

in the BMCLine

3 RailwayRailway lines passing

through the networkLine

6 JunctionsMajor road junctions in

the DistrictPoint

7 Tourist spots

Major tourist

destinations in the

BMC

Point

8Others Important

PlacesParks, Museums etc Point

9 Worship PlacesReligious places in

BMCPoint

Application Of Visual Basic

Selection of tools and components to be used in visual Basic

Fixing the forms pattern and designing of the forms

Writing codes and use the properties options on the component of Visual Basic

Implementation of the system and conversion to executable file(.exe) and transfer of the information system as package

Integration of Visual Basic and Arc Map through DDE Technology

Hyperlinking

Development of Application Product through Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) technology

Web browser tool

Building Information as a package

Hyperlinking

Identify the location in which the hyperlink has to be set using the identify tool in Arc Map

Right click the attribute table of the selected location and add the hyperlink

Publish the map with the help of publisher extension in ArcMap .(The file will be then saved in .pmf format)

Open the saved .pmf file in ArcReader and click on the location that is hyperlinked

The user will be directed to the information system developed in Visual Basic 6.0

Development of Application Product through Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) technology

Ability to generate thematic base maps

Ability to browse and make selections

Ability to display of the selected Tourist spot details.

Ability to update the database files.

Flowchart depicting the work flow for the development of application

Results and Discussion

Road Network Map of Bhubaneswar

Tourist destinations in Bhubaneswar

Welcome Screen

Menu Screen

Road Published Map

Tourist published Map

Tourist Map of Bhubaneswar

Conclusion

As tourism management and development become large in scope, and are becoming international Popular.

GIS application has made the study much more simplified and produces results in an attractive manner.

Tourism has changed a lot since the early days and so have the reasons changed for travelling

References

Report on College information System for Thiruvanthapuram District using application of GIS and Visual Basic by Srija Santhosh,Fasliya K.,Aliya

www.esri.com

www.orissatourism.gov.in

www.otdc.in

www.gisdevelopment.net

www.google.co.in

www.wikipedia.com

Thanks