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Introduction
The most valuable asset an enterprise owns is its information. The challenge is to make that information quickly and easily available to users so that they can use for productive works.

In earlier days, if a person wanted to get information about an urban area, he was required to approach different authorities and the information was available on different scale with different accuracy. Combining this information was a difficult task. Each department carry out their own mapping work independent of other department thereby different departments duplicates much of work. This problem may be overcomes if there is a centralized information system for an area. This can effectively be done using GIS, which relate the spatial and non-spatial database. For providing the spatial and non-spatial information on Internet the web GIS is used. Web GIS allows user to create Web sites or web pages that put control over the creation and display of GIS data over the net.

GeoMedia Web Map is a Web-based map visualization and analysis tool that provides real-time links to GIS data warehouses. User can query a database and see information described in a map – or click on a map feature or area and see selected database information about that particular map feature. GeoMedia Web Map enables user to access and analyze data anywhere, anytime. It enables users to access data in its native format – without translation or conversion – and performs queries on live data to get the answers they need. User is able to pan, zoom, area-measure, location, queries and displaying various features.

Objective of Present Study
The main objective of report is to develop a web based master plan of IIT Roorkee campus in graphical form. User can query a database and see information about buildings, apartments, hostels, canteens, buildings to be demolished, proposed buildings, proposed roads, exiting roads, labels, and departments using GeoMedia Web Map.

Master plan of IIT-Roorkee Campus
The University of Roorkee, the fountainhead of technical education in India has been transformed into Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee recently. Being the pioneering institute in technical education in the whole of Asia, its campus has a glorious heritage developed over a long period of 155 years. This phase of transformation from the old University of Roorkee to Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee in its all aspects is very crucial from the point of view of its further development. This has provided a golden opportunity to prepare a comprehensive Master Plan document to ensure a well-balanced sustainable future growth of the campus.