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Abstract
Geographic Information System (GIS) is a computer aided decision support and planning tool which integrate data from maps and other auxiliary information for a geographical area of interest. This is a rapidly advancing computer based technology where information is organised, analysed and presented with reference to a location. Once the GIS package integrates the spatial and non-spatial attributes, the planner has a powerful tool, which can be used for analysed information circulation or transformation. The user can access the attributes at its fingertips.

As a part of a Pilot under 'Smart City Project' of Guam Budh Nagar District, the entire district map is being digitised with the objective that the digitised map will facilitate the district administration in planning the district resources efficiently. The District map is digested up to the cadastral level of information. Further to the digitisation of map, data attachment are also being done for individual objects, so as to access relevant and necessary information at the time of decision making. The information includes the Khatauni (Plot No., Ownership, Area, Revenue, Phasili year and Land type etc.) and Khasara (Season wise crop details, Number of trees and type and Irrigation pattern etc.) for the village maps.

GIS can be used as an effective tool for civic administration. However, till date most of the organisations are manually creating and utilising a variety of maps in their daily activities. With the ever-exploding population, the basic infrastructures in urban and rural areas could crack down in the absence of an adequate planning due to these analogue maps. GIS tools can effectively be used as front ends, if designed appropriately for use of novice officers in the administration. Property management is sensitive area for a large section of Govt. administration & appropriate controls at multifacet locals has to be generated. This dynamic management is always short of time. GIS can cater for this need.

Introduction Land usage and the ownership changes continuously over the period of time. Planning based on these informations is a continuous process and sometimes seem to be critical. Taking decisions online effectively can be easier and faster using the technology of GIS, where the decision-maker can visualise the database before the decision pictorially too.

The elementary part of a country as an "Object" is the village. The information generated from the village should flow faster to administration for proper management. The citizens should also get the information about their property with zero error. This is possible using a proper tool with GIS interface. GIS technology is a concept that makes things easier to take a decision and get information through visualisation.

Before taking a decision the management / administrator requires the authenticated and accurate data and a proper computer aided tool, which will incorporate & analyse data with auxiliary information and spatial information faster for the decision making. The data has to be generated and compatible application software has to be developed keeping in view suitability of the user.

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The Case
For the district, Gauttam Budh Nagar (U.P.), the data has been generated from the basic level of information i.e. the khasra maps (cloth maps). These spatial databases include various layers of information like:

• Tehsil Boundary
• Village Boundary
• Road Network (NH, SH, MDR, ODR, Village Roads)
• Rivers & Major Canals
• Electrical Network
• Agricultural Settlements

These layers of information also include the information inside the village like plot boundaries, chuck roads, canals, water bodies etc. Further to the creation of digital database, deferent entities are being attached to the non-spatial information. These informations include the Khatauni (Plot No., Ownership, Area, Revenue, Phasili year and Land type etc.) and Khasara (Season wise crop details, Number of trees and type and Irrigation pattern etc.) for the village maps.

The spatial data and non-spatial data together with the developed application tool with GIS interface can help the District Administration in various useful aspects like property management. Which could be:

• Locating plot(s) belonging to person(s).
• Mutation of land based on various criteria.
• Faster updation and presentation of data (Spatial & Non-spatial)
• Planning of revenue generation.
• Planning of irrigation pattern.
• Land acquisition.
• Development of existing and planning of new structures.
• Finding of land use like residential, commercial, industrial, water bodies etc.
• Generating of reports for higher officials / management with adequate maps.
• Generating a component for MIS at State/National level.
• Accessing the data at the fingertips.

Methodology
The data utilised here could be divided into two groups i.e. Non-Spatial auxiliary data and Spatial map data. The non-spatial data should be in the form of external database, which facilitate the user to use the same database for other application like MIS. In the present study, the database is in ORACLE. The database is stored in deferent tables using the concepts of RDBMS for faster and easier accessing of the data with proper multi threaded security.

The spatial data conversion process normally begins with the identification of the data source for the land base. These sources of information may range from extremely accurate surveyed maps containing no ground control references. Source data may also be existing in the computer files in deferent formats. Before starting the creation of database the source data has to be updated and verified so as to generate the accurate existing data. Some times the data is not clear enough to distinguish the features, which create problems for the operator and inaccurate data may get generated. As the decisions of a planner are based on the data, the inaccuracy in the base data may create problems to the planner too. So the maps has to be made distinguishable before considering it as source data.

Detail of plots in a village Bhola Rawal
In the present case the spatial data is being created using on-screen digitisation process of khasra level village maps (cloth maps) and integrated with the digitised Survey of India maps. The cloth maps those have been developed during the Chakbandhi are being considered to be the source data, Chakbandhi happens once in twenty-five years. The cloth maps are converted to the raster format images using the scanner and subsequently to the vector format using the onscreen digitisation process. These vectorised village maps are made error free with GIS tools and are geo referenced in respect of the Survey of India Maps. An integrated single map is being generated from several cloth maps. This makes the user to access all the village maps at the same time.

The next step that is being carried out is linking of the two databases with the help of the plot nos. and village codes. This generated database can be used for the making decision for the district administration using the developed tool, which is capable of various automatic query analysis, thematic mapping, report generation etc.

This front-end tool which is being developed can be incorporated with regional languages so as to facilitate the user to use the tool in user friendly manner for the planning. Here in the present case the tool is using the Hindi language both for data updation and data representation with query analysis.

Conclusion
The generation of the base map and attachments of attributes not only help the administration but also to other government and non-government organisations providing multiple usage of onetime effort. The use of the front-end tool will help in improving the revenues as well as the services benefiting time and economy.