City Focus: A web-based interactive 2D and 3D GIS application to find the best place in a city, using open data and open source software
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Social Computing, Spatial and Geographic Information Systems, World Wide Web and Web Science
- Keywords
- Open data, Free and Open Source Software, NASA Web WorldWind, RASDAMAN
- Copyright
- © 2016 Arias Muñoz et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2016. City Focus: A web-based interactive 2D and 3D GIS application to find the best place in a city, using open data and open source software. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2232v2 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2232v2
Abstract
City Focus is a web-based interactive 2D and 3D GIS application to find the best place in a city to live as well as to pass shorter staying. The user can select among different criteria and decide their importance by assigning weights to each of them. The application provides thematic maps displaying insights on the places which better fit the user’s preferences. The resulting map is computed through map algebra by means of Web Coverage Processing Service WCPS provided by RASDAMAN Database Management System. Data visualization is mainly based on NASA Web WorldWind open-source virtual globe. The app exploits exclusively open data as well as Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for its implementation by enabling continuous improvements while minimizing development costs.
Author Comment
This is an article intended for the OGRS2016 Collection. Session: CitySmart, Open Source Apps for Urban Management (chair: Hogan; Brovelli). We took into account the review's comments.
Supplemental Information
City Focus: A web-based interactive 2D and 3D GIS application to find the best place in a city, using open data and open source software
version 2 after review