AGIS. Reflections on a Geographic Information System Used as a Web-based Planning Tool for the ASVK Graz

Abstract

The Altstadt Graz Information System might be a representative example how Geographic Information Systems can be employed to satisfy the needs of a highly specialised user group which was not familiar with GIS before. Due to this lack of experience and existing examples AGIS has to be designed and set up completly new handling a lot of dissimiliar problems like the acquisition and the management of different kinds of data, the providing of information to mobile clients and the visualisation of retrieval results in a more flexible form (netbased as well as on storage media). The since now fully implemented low budget information system plots the location of the objects on clickable maps, shows their appearance and gives hints to the cultural relevance of the listed houses.