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Urban Planning and Information System for Municipal Corporations




The main screen of the system is linked to all the departments (Fig. 2) and to the user administration module. The user enters into different modules using secured login information given by the system administrator. The main part of the screen shows the NMC map along with map navigation utilities like Zoom In, Zoom Out, Pan and Layer control map navigation helps to navigate through the map in an easy way. By using Zoom in and Zoom out option the user will be able to see the map in different scales and will be able to browse to the detail macro to micro level features. The pan option is to move the map on the map screen. Under the Querying option, all the required queries will be listed which will be understandable to the user. The option for Reports enables the user to generate reports related to their individual department. The Data Entry option allows the user to navigate to the concerned screens for the data entry. All the data entry screens have facilities like add-, delete-, modify-, query record, record navigation (next-, previous-, last-, first record). In the layer customization option the user is given the option to change the properties of map layers like scale, visibility, labeling etc for better viewing.


Fig. 2: Urban Planning and Information System

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