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This article reflects upon the impact that technology and innovation has had on urban development. From NASA's Landstat program, to Google maps and GPS, technlogy has had a significant impact on urban planning and land use law. The article begins with a discussion of the impact of the elevator and steel technologies on urban architecture and density, and then moves to changes in transportation such as the automobile and the development of public transportation systems. Green buildings, GIS, satellite data, online mapping, personal computers, the Internet and cell phones are all examined.

BioCaster is an ontology-based text mining system for detecting and tracking the distribution of infectious disease outbreaks from linguistic signals on the Web. The system continuously analyzes documents reported from over 1700 RSS feeds, classifies them for topical relevance and plots them onto a Google map using geocoded information. The background knowledge for bridging the gap between Layman's terms and formal-coding systems is contained in the freely available BioCaster ontology which includes information in eight languages focused on the epidemiological role of pathogens as well as geographical locations with their latitudes/longitudes. The system consists of four main stages: topic classification, named entity recognition (NER), disease/location detection and event recognition. Higher order event analysis is used to detect more precisely specified warning signals that can then be notified to registered users via email alerts. Evaluation of the system for topic recognition and entity identification is conducted on a gold standard corpus of annotated news articles.

The majority of transit trip planners currently exist as proprietary systems based on particular vendor 3 products. With more functional components incorporated, the system maintenance and regular transit 4 information updates become burdensome tasks for the transit agencies. Additionally, the proprietary 5 nature of the systems makes it difficult to take advantage of the rapid advancement of geospatial 6 information and Web technologies. This paper proposed an open and interoperable transit trip 7

A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a computer program for storing, retrieving, analyzing, and displaying cartographic data.
1 - Storing (Spatial vertexes, Attribute Texture Table)
2 - Retrieving (File processing)
3 - Analyzing ( Attribute analysis, Spatial analysis, Surface analysis, Shortest path analysis)
4 - Displaying Cartographic Data (Coordinates System, Fast viewing formulas)

GIS Software Programming is impacted by several sciences such as
Geographic, Surveying, Graphic, Data Structure, Operating Research, Software Engineering, Software Programming, and Code Enhancement

Sound pollution and traffic jam are two major problems in most of the city roads of developing cities like as Dhaka, Bangladesh. Traffic jam, as well as mixed traffic condition, is the major cause of sound pollution in the city roads. Both of these issues affect mostly on country's public health and development. A lot of new roads have been constructed in Dhaka city every year but the majority of the roads have not been constructed considering the future AADT (Annual Average Daily Traffic) value. The traffic volume has increased a lot as the population of the country increased rapidly and shifting the status of the country from developing county to the developed country increased the demand for privet car and as a result traffic jam is a regular problem in the Dhaka city. Due to increasing traffic volume, the waiting time in the traffic jam has been increased consequently. Drivers bell the horn of their vehicle to attract the concentration of the traffic police so that the traff...

This paper reports an explanatory study of using Google Map API to develop two destinationspecific tourist information tools: a handheld tour guide and an online trip planner for Charleston, South Carolina, USA. The background, development, functionality, and adoption issues were discussed. The handheld tour guide is based on mobile phones with a GPS antenna to communicate with Google Map and deliver real-time and location-sensitive tourist information. Online Charleston trip planner combines destination specific information with Google Map to provide an interactive trip planning tool based on the map metaphor. The handheld tour guide is slow and unstable due to memory limitations and slow Internet connection provided by the mobile phone service. The online trip planner is being adopted by various hotels and conferences. The development effort demonstrated that Google Map API is a flexible tool with reasonable speed for developing destination-specific online services. For mobile tools, the computing power and wireless connections of small devices are the bottlenecks when communicating with online services.

Traffic jam in Jakarta, Indonesia has become a crucial problem for the society. A Traffic Management Center has been built by the police, in this case Polda Metro Jaya to help people to get the latest information regarding traffic jam. Twitter has been used by TMC Polda Metro Jaya to spread the news of traffic. In this paper, information extraction technique is used to get the data of traffic, so that the traffic information can be presented in map view as a mobile application of Android. Early experiment with limited vocabulary and rules has showed promising result.

This paper describes technologies from Daden Limited for geographically mapping and accessing live news stories/feeds, as well as other real-time, real-world data feeds (e.g., Google Earth KML feeds and GeoRSS feeds) in the 3-D virtual world of Second Life, by plotting and updating the corresponding Earth location points on a globe or some other suitable form (in-world), and further linking those points to relevant information and resources. This approach enables users to visualise, interact with, and even walk or fly through, the plotted data in 3-D. Users can also do the reverse: put pins on a map in the virtual world, and then view the data points on the Web in Google Maps or Google Earth. The technologies presented thus serve as a bridge between mirror worlds like Google Earth and virtual worlds like Second Life. We explore the geo-data display potential of virtual worlds and their likely convergence with mirror worlds in the context of the future 3-D Internet or Metaverse, and reflect on the potential of such technologies and their future possibilities, e.g. their use to develop emergency/public health virtual situation rooms to effectively manage emergencies and disasters in real time. The paper also covers some of the issues associated with these technologies, namely user interface accessibility and individual privacy.

Sound pollution and traffic jam are two major problems in most of the city roads of developing cities like as Dhaka, Bangladesh. Traffic jam, as well as mixed traffic condition, is the major cause of sound pollution in the city roads. Both of these issues affect mostly on country's public health and development. A lot of new roads have been constructed in Dhaka city every year but the majority of the roads have not been constructed considering the future AADT (Annual Average Daily Traffic) value. The traffic volume has increased a lot as the population of the country increased rapidly and shifting the status of the country from developing county to the developed country increased the demand for privet car and as a result traffic jam is a regular problem in the Dhaka city. Due to increasing traffic volume, the waiting time in the traffic jam has been increased consequently. Drivers bell the horn of their vehicle to attract the concentration of the traffic police so that the traffic police provide the green signal to his/her desired destination road. Also after the starting of the green signal or when the yellow signal is provided to the drivers, the driver bell horn of their vehicle so that low-speed vehicle side to high-speed vehicle. Besides these, bikers continuously press the hydraulic horn to provide them free access throughout their road. In this research work, we have attempted to show how much free access is available to Natun Bazar to Farmgate road, a major traffic-congested road in Dhaka city for both directions of traffic movement and also the present sound pollution condition in this road. On an average of 9.06% and 8.46% of a day the driver gets free access [green signal] on this route based on the traffic movement direction [Natun Bazar to Farmgate route]. At present on average it requires around 2 hr. for traveling 7 km road and this is a hotspot of huge time killing for the city people in their regular life. Besides this passenger has to bear a sound level of around 101 dB including the residents living in this area beside the roadway. This impact is tremendous for the bikers and bus passengers result, they are experiencing significant issues such as headaches, decreased job performance, decreased focus, exhaustion, tension, and tiredness.

This paper presents a real time tracking system that provides accurate localizations of the tracked vehicle with low cost. The system is implemented using GM862 cellular quad band module. A monitoring server and a graphical user interface on a website have also been implemented using Microsoft SQL Server 2003 and ASP.net to view the current location of a vehicle on a specific map. The system provides information regarding the vehicle status such as speed, mileage. The prototype has been tested experimentally and the results are analyzed and discussed. The experiments are conducted in different areas on Kingdom Of Bahrain using Google maps.

Panduan web design dan web programming menyajikan contoh-contoh kasus yang sering menjadi kebutuhan kita baik dalam proses design maupun  programming dalam sebuah web. Panduan ini sangat sesuai bagi anda yang menekuni dunia web. Dalam panduan web ini, disajikan contoh-contoh kasus dalam web yang melibatkan berbagai teknologi web, seperti pembuatan image slideshow bootstrap, dashboard admin panel dengan php, membuat crud php dengan front-end botstrap

تصميم أي قاعدة بيانات يتطلب دراسة إذ أن تصميم أي قاعدة بيانات يتطلب دراسة ،إن أهمية قواعد البيانات تكمن في أنها تنتج البيانات و تربطها ببعضها البعض بفعل إدارة البيانات التي يمكن الاسترجاع والتعديل عليها .
تهدف هاته الدراسة للتعرف على كيفية تصميم قواعد البيانات بشكل عام حسب تخصص علم المكتبات دراسة نظرية

Nowadays, security system and navigators have always been a necessity of human's life. The main aim of vehicle tracking system is to give security to all vehicles. Vehicle tracking systems are also popular among people as a theft prevention and retrieval device. This research decribes the IoT based vehicle tracking system. This system includes NODE MCU EPS8266, GPS module, DHT11, buzzer and power supply. The proposed system is used for positioning and navigating the vehicle with an accuracy of 10 m. The system tracks the location of particular vehicle and sends to users mobile in form of data. The arrived data, in the form of latitude and longitude is used to locate the vehicle on the Google maps and also the output can be seen on the android phone by using Blynk App. Index Terms-GPS, EPS8266, Google Map, Vehicle Tracking and Blynk App.

لم يسلم مجال الأرشيف من  التغيرات التي جعلت منه مجالا ديناميكيا يحتاج الى حرص واهتمام شديدين ,لهذا وجد الارشيفيين انفسهم امام تحدي يستوجب اليقظة الدائمة و التصرف السريع لان مصير الأرشيف بين أيديهم لهذا  فلا سبيل لذلك الا مواصلتهم للتكوين والتنمية  المستمرة, في مجال الأرشيف  فهو الرابط الوحيد الذي يجعل الارشيفي لا يغفل عن الميدان ,ويسهم بقدر كبير في تزويده بالمعلومات لتحديث معارفه وتحسين أدائه
تهدف هاته للتعرف على ادارة الموارد البشرية في الأرشيف الولائي بولاية بسكرة .اهم البرامج التي يتبعها الارشيف الولائي لتحسين موارده .............ـ

This paper proposes a real-time vehicle tracking system using a global positioning system (GPS) technology module to receive the location of the vehicle, to forward into microcontroller and to connect internet by a general packet radio service (GPRS) technology for displaying a real time on the website map developed by Google Map which allows inspection of vehicles at all times. There are 3 parts of this project. The first part is a program developed in C language for controlling the hardware. Employing PHP and AJAX language will be developed for the Google Map API to help a map construction on the website. The second part is the hardware, there are the GPS and GPRS modules, the GPS module will locate the vehicles via the satellite, and the GPRS module will assemble all data and send it to the website by the microcontroller. The final part is the interface using RS232 for connecting between the GPS and GPRS modules. With the Google Map on a real-time website, vehicles can be monitored and located very effectively. This includes paths and/or vehicles directions. However, the small error is at approximately 5 meters in the wrong location due to the limitation of hardware and the ratio of map reference.

La formación crítica del antropólogo es un compromiso que todo docente debe promover en sus aulas, para ello, no sólo debe cubrir la dimensión teórica de su programa de estudio sino impulsar el uso de herramientas análogas o digitales y con ello aproximar a los estudiantes a experimentar, comprender y analizar el espacio en el que se desenvuelven. Bajo esa premisa, el grupo 0021 de la materia de Geografía y Cartografía (2019-2) elaboró una cartografía sonora mediante la grabación de diversos procesos sociales y ambientales, los cuales grabó, analizó, editó y reinterpretó para crear paisajes sonoros particulares en tiempo y espacio de la Ciudad de México. La incorporación de los paisajes en una base cartográfica colaborativa dio origen a un mapa titulado CDMX Audible, cuya función es reconocer en los futuros antropólogos su condición como productores y estimularlos a construir desde los primeros semestres las condiciones para el análisis crítico, individual y colectivo,de la espacialidad social .

According to statistics " road to safety " [1], in a highly populated country like India, the usage of vehicles is rapidly increasing and at the same time people lose their lives because of accidents and poor emergency facilities. Hence, the value of human life is ignored. These lives could have been saved if medical facilities were provided at the right time and if drunk drivers were prohibited from driving. As fuel and vehicle have become even more dearer there is an increasing number of fuel thefts taking place. This project proposes a system which can be installed in any car at a minimal cost, acting as a solution to the mentioned drawbacks. An accelerometer sensor is used to sense the vibrations and tilt generated by the vehicle when it meets with an accident. Using this digital output via the controller an SMS is sent to preprogrammed numbers such as ambulance, police station, family member of the victim etc. indicating that an accident has occurred with a link in the SMS depicting the accident spot via Google map service provider. Alcohol sensor is used to detect alcohol in the breath of the driver, if sensed the vehicle ignition will not turn on. Antitheft system is also included for fuel wherein if theft of either is detected then there will be an SMS sent to the owner indicating a theft occurrence, along with an immediate siren so as to alert the surroundings.

Initially mobile phones were developed only for voice communication but now days the scenario has changed, voice communication is just one aspect of a mobile phone. There are other aspects which are major focus of interest. Two such major factors are web browser and GPS services. Both of these functionalities are already implemented but are only in the hands of manufacturers not in the hands of users because of proprietary issues, the system does not allow the user to access the mobile hardware directly. But now, after the release of android based open source mobile phone a user can access the hardware directly and design customized native applications to develop Web and GPS enabled services and can program the other hardware components like camera etc. In this paper we will discuss the facilities available in android platform for implementing LBS services (geoservices).

According to statistics " road to safety " , in a highly populated country like India, the usage of vehicles are rapidly increasing and at the same time people lose their lives because of accidents and poor emergency facilities. Hence, the value of human life is ignored. These lives could have been saved if medical facilities were provided at the right time. This paper proposes a system which can be installed in any car on the road at a minimal cost, acting as a solution to the mentioned drawback. An accelerometer sensor is used to sense the vibrations and tilt generated by the vehicle when it meets with an accident. This digital output from the sensor is used by the Arduino Uno controller, which is the heart of the system, to trigger the GSM module to deliver an SMS to preprogramed numbers such as ambulance, police station, family member of the victim etc. indicating that an accident has occurred. The accident location is provided by the global positioning system (GPS), which provides the latitude and longitude of the location, and with this information a link is sent in the SMS depicting the accident spot via Google map service provider.

Starting  from  the  concept  of  Digital  Earth,  the  article  questions  the  effects  that  Google’s  geo-spatial  applications  have  produced  on  our  daily  relationship  with  information,  and  the  way  we  experience  the  spaces  around  us.  Its  aim  is  twofold:  on  the  one  hand,  I  intend  to  examine  the  implications  that  bring  Google’s  digital  maps  closer to the invention of the print or telescope; on the other hand, I intend to explain, through  a  medio-anthropological  investigation,  how  the  map,  as  a  medium  of  perception, falls not only de facto, but also de jure, into the field of aesthetics.

World Health Organization showed at one year about 287 000 women died most of them during and following pregnancy and childbirth in Africa and south Asia. This paper suggests mHealth system for serving pregnant women, that proposed system is first an effective mHealth system works base on mobile GIS to select adjacent care centre or hospital maternity on Google map at online registration for woman pregnant, that is done when the pregnant woman will send SMS via GPRS network contains her ID and coordinates (Longitude and Latitude) the server when receive it will search database support that system and using the same infrastructure for help the pregnant women at her location (home, market, etc) in emergency cases when the woman send SMS contains her coordinates for succoring. Implement the proposed pregnant women system shows more effective from view of cost than other systems because it works in economic (SMS) mode and from view of serve the system can easy and rapidly manage when achieving locally registration, succoring in emergency cases, change the review date of pregnant woman, as well as different types of advising.

Keywords: Pregnant Women, mHealth System, General Packet Radio Service (GPRS); Mobile GIS; Short Message Service (SMS), Global Position System (GPS).

New and redesigned version of Internet service MapsOfSerbia is presented in the paper. High quality data for the territory of Serbia cannot be found on worldwide existing services of similar category (Google Maps - GM, Microsoft Virtual Earth - VE, Yahoo Maps - YM). Territory of Serbia is mostly covered by small scaled satellite imagery (Landsat) and major roads network. There are also areas (around some larger cities and on few other locations) where imagery from Ikonos or Quickbird satellite missions is used. The reason for this situation is that large worldwide providers of vector datasets (TeleAtlas, Navteq and others) still do not have larger datasets for Serbian territory (for example, data for the capital city of Serbia, Belgrade). Satellite imagery in fine resolution is available only for areas and locations mentioned above and therefore leading dataset providers do not have significant amount of raster datasets (orthophoto) of Serbian territory in their archives as well. Th...

This article argues that the computer automation of perspective and rendering in Google Earth has far-reaching consequences for the relationships between representations of the earth, its ecology and cultural responses to climate change. Theorists Erwin Panofsky (1991) and William Ivins (1975) to Lev Manovich (1993) and Don Ihde (2009) have argued that the emergence of Renaissance perspective structured a new relationship between the image and the object: contributing to the initiation of industrialisation and science. Whilst Manovich describes the impacts of Renaissance perspective in terms of its effect upon scientific and industrial structures, Jean Louis Comolli has argued that its advent was both a cause and a consequence of a shift to a humanist social regime. This article argues that Google Earth and its corollaries now complicate the visual and discursive constitution of the cultural and ecological environment. The contemporary computer-generated ‘visual nominalism’ of Google Earth results in a photomapped representation of the earth that can elevate environmental awareness through visualised data sets at the same time as it reduces the earth to a product design–engineered object. As Comolli’s Machines of the Visible becomes Machinima of the Visible, this article asks whether public and scientific calls for a turn towards geoengineering can be viewed through a product design–engineered interface that reconstitutes the social machine as an engineer of the earth object itself.

This demo presents OpenVoIP, a 500 node open peer-to-peer VoIP and IM system running on Planet Lab. The three key aspects of OpenVoIP's design are its ability to use any DHT or unstructured peer-to-peer protocol for directory service, the use of intermediate peers with unrestricted connectivity to relay signaling and media traffic between peers behind NAT and firewalls, and a diagnostic system integrated with Google maps for graphical monitoring. The demo will show these aspects of OpenVoIP and provide insights on issues and related problems in building such a system.

The Web took the world by storm, and as a result developed rapidly in many directions. However it still exhibits many aspects of its early development, such as its visual and computer-screen orientation. But the Web is still developing rapidly: there are now more browsers on mobile telephones than on desktops, and there is a vast diversity in types of devices, types and orientations of screens, and sizes (in number of pixels), and resolutions (in dpi) of screens.

Housing in Potsdam varies from flats in redeveloped prefabricated high-rise buildings to apartments in historical townhouses to condominiums in Germany's first gated community. Increasing demographic development and a stagnant public housing sector generate potential for spatial conflicts. For the time being in-depth GIS-based spatial analysis of the housing market lacks. This article analyses spatial trends and distribution patterns of the Potsdam housing market, using geostatistical methods implemented in free opensource geographic information systems (FOS GIS). To assemble a spatially differentiated picture of the housing market, methods such as spatial interpolation techniques and spatial declustering are applied. The analysis presented here is based on a representative sample of recent housing market data from 2009. The study provides a basis for discussion of a generic approach to housing market analysis based on free opensource geoinformation systems.

In 2003 the Palestinian state received official recognition on the Web before it was established on the ground. The delegation of the .ps Country code Top level domain (CcTld) to the Palestinian Authority and its inclusion in the UN list of recognized countries and territories created an official Web-space in which a Palestinian state operated side-by-side with other sovereign states. Yet with the rise of Web 2.0 applications, the official representation of the Palestinian state partially disappeared.
This study focuses on the shift in the spatial representation of the Palestinian state on the Web, from an officially acknowledged national Web space, followed by its partial disappearance in Web 2.0 spaces, to its reconstruction as a user-generated space. It examines Palestine’s virtual borders on various Web 2.0 mapping platforms, along with the listing (and non-listing) of Palestine as a country in the registration procedure of popular Web 2.0 applications. It shows that on most mapping platforms the Palestinian Territory is underrepresented, and that the country's official representation on the UN list of recognized countries and territories is often omitted or modified on social media sites’ registration forms. After analyzing the geo-politics of social media's drop-down country lists, this study argues that Web 2.0 spaces are unofficial Web-spaces, in which official representations of countries are not determined by diplomacy or approved by international institutions, but rather by interaction between commercial platforms and their users.
Faced with the partial disappearance of their homeland, Palestinian users both in the Palestinian Territory and in the Diaspora thus become placeless participants of Web 2.0 spaces. They attempt to reclaim the virtual representation of their home country as a sovereign Palestinian state by protesting, uploading, tagging and generating content on Web 2.0 platforms. On platforms such as Facebook, Blogger and Google Maps, user activism and user-generated content has led to a spatial transformation from the country's non-listing and non-placement, to its official inclusion. Finally, this article makes a contribution to the theorization of political Web spaces by arguing that the Palestinian case complicates current views on relationships between the Web and the ground. Unlike the common perception that the virtual is grounded in the real, the over-representation of a Palestinian state in official Web spaces, in parallel with its underrepresentation in unofficial Web spaces, and users' treatment of virtual spaces as real spaces, indicate that these realms actually tend to merge, at least in the case of contested Web terrains and unsettled struggles for self-determination.

We investigate a security framework for collaborative applications that relies on the role-based access control (RBAC) model. In our framework, roles are pre-defined and organized in a hierarchy (partial order). However, we assume that users are not previously identified, therefore the actions that they can perform are dynamically determined based on their own attribute values and on the attribute values associated with the resources. Those values can vary over time (e.g., the user's location or whether the resource is open for visiting) thus enabling or disabling a user's ability to perform an action on a particular resource. In our framework, constraint values form partial orders and determine the association of actions with the resources and of users with roles. We have implemented our framework by exploring the capabilities of semantic web technologies, and in particular of OWL 1.1, to model both our framework and the domain of interest and to perform several types of reasoning. In addition, we have implemented a user interface whose purpose is twofold: (1) to offer a visual explanation of the underlying reasoning by displaying roles and their associations with users (e.g., as the user's locations vary); and (2) to enable monitoring of users that are involved in a collaborative application. Our interface uses the Google Maps API and is particularly suited to collaborative applications where the users' geospatial locations are of interest.

The Internet through Web services is providing innovative ways of business and flexible computing paradigm. SaaS (Software as a Service) is an emerging new model for software as a service. The number of SaaS services are available in the market such as Twitter, Gmail, Saleforce.com and Google Maps to configure SaaS based Web service system. But, there are several issues to achieve these requirements, Scalable, Configurable, Multi-Tenant-Efficient SaaS model. To meet these requirements, SaaS infrastructure is required to have scale out architecture with data interoperable function without any data contamination. It also needs short latency of time service because Web service is online and follows the remote client-server model. If service response time does not meet them timeliness requirements, users would not be use SaaS application services again. This paper proposes autonomous system architecture for the scalable SaaS infrastructure to meet timeliness and multi-tenant access for SaaS applications. The paper proposes concept and architecture of of L4 cache block level cache for specific data and content and copes with the above issues efficiently. The paper carried out the evaluation of the proposed system architecture and also evaluated VMM environment as well.

الاستشهاد المرجعي:
المصري، أحمد حسين بكر (2019) . المؤشرات الجغرافية لمؤسسات المكتبات ومراكز المعلومات العربية بمنصة خرائط جوجل: دراسة وصفية . المجلة العربية للأرشيف والتوثيق والمعلومات، س23، ع46 (ديسمبر 2019). ص: 446-504.

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هدفت الدراسة إلى رصد وتجميع المؤشرات الجغرافية لمؤسسات المكتبات ومراكز المعلومات العربية المتاحة بمنصة خرائط جوجل، للتعرف على مدى توافرها وتحليل وتفسير ما شملته من معلومات مكانية ووصفية، تُمكن جمهور المستخدمين من التعرف عليها وتساندهم أثناء تخطيطهم لزيارتها وتحقق وصولهم المباشر إليها. حيث استخدمت الدراسة المنهج الوصفي لحصر ووصف ما أتيح من مؤشرات جغرافية، كما استخدمت أسلوب تحليل المحتوى في التعرف على سماتها وخصائصها وما شملته من معلومات مكانية ووصفية عن مؤسسات المكتبات العربية. وقد استخدمت استمارة منهجية محكمة لتجميع بيانات المؤشرات الجغرافية وتحليل وتفسير عناصرها، إضافة إلى استخدام الأساليب الإحصائية الوصفية في تحديد مدى استيفاء معلوماتها وعناصرها وحساب تكراراتها ونسبها المئوية، والتعبير عنها في شكل جداول وأشكال عكست ما توصلت إليه الدراسة من نتائج علمية تختص بالمؤشرات الجغرافية لمؤسسات المكتبات ومراكز المعلومات العربية المتاحة بمنصة خرائط جوجل.
وأسفرت عمليات المسح والتنقيب لمنصة خرائط جوجل عن رصد وتجميع (335) ثلاثمئة وخمسة وثلاثين مؤشر جغرافي اختصت جميعها بمؤسسات المكتبات ومراكز المعلومات ومتاحة ضمن (16) ست عشرة دولة بالعالم العربي، جاء أكثر من نصفها (51%) بكل من جمهورية مصر العربية، والمملكة العربية السعودية، كما أظهرت الدراسة أن (المكتبات العامة) هي أكثر الأنواع توافرًا بمنصة خرائط جوجل العالمية حيث مثلت نسبة (54.3%) من جملة مفردات ما تم حصره وتجميعه من المؤشرات الجغرافية. في حين عكست عدم اهتمام الكثير من المكتبات العربية بتوثيق وتسجيل مؤشراتها الجغرافية المتاحة بمنصة خرائط جوجل، فضلًا عن تشتتها وعدم انضباط عناصرها ومعلوماتها الوصفية والمكانية على السواء.
وطرحت الدراسة عدة توصيات تطبيقية أتى على رأسها ضرورة اتخاذ مؤسسات المكتبات العربية خطوات جادة وفعالة لتكوين وإتاحة مؤشراتها الجغرافية بمنصات الخرائط الرقمية المتاحة على الويب مع أهمية توثيق ملكيتها وإدارة معلوماتها وتحديثها المستمر بالشكل الذي يضمن صحة محتوياتها ويُمَكِن جمهور المستخدمين من التعرف عليها والوصول المباشر لها للاستفادة المثلى من تجهيزاتها ومجموعاتها وأنشطتها المختلفة.

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Geographical Indicators for Arab Library and Information Centers at “Google Maps” Platform: Descriptive study

This study  aimed to  gather  the Geographic Indicators of Arab libraries and Information Centers by surveying the most popular used web-GIS platform "Google maps", and identifying the Spatial and descriptive information of indicators’ elements which help users to find the library which they are planning to visit and reach it. And used the Descriptive Survey Method to collect geographic indicators, and The Content Analysis to evaluate their spatial & descriptive information. It also aimed at measuring the degree of accurateness of those indicators in finding and accessing the libraries & information centers locations. Checklist had been used to collect the geographic indicators and analyzing their elements. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) had been used to degree the availability and to measure the relative weight for the elements of geographic indicators and had displayed the results in tables and charts.
The survey found (335) geographical indicators related to library and information centers available at (16) Arab countries and more than half of them are available in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The public libraries are the most type of Arab libraries available at Google maps (54.3%). It also reflected the lack of interest in the Arab libraries to review their geographical indications which added by “Google Maps” users, as well as the lack of discipline of the information descriptive or spatial covered by its elements.
The study presented several practical recommendations, the main of which is the need for Arab libraries to take effective and serious steps to represent their locations within the digital map platforms which available through the web and mobiles applications. Arab libraries need to document its ownership of their geographic indicators to ensure the validity of its information to enable the users of Web-GIS platforms to properly identify them and achieve direct access to its locations.

Development Telecommunication Tower growth cannot be avoided. Accordingly, the local government makes local regulations on Planning and Control of Telecommunication Tower to avoid illegal construction of Telecommunication Tower because makes a reduction in open land and also reduces the aesthetic value of the spatial region. The researcher conducted a study on the implementation of methods haversine on a geographic information system is expected to simplify the process of distance measurements for the determination of Telecommunication Tower towards the elliptical shape of the earth.

Abstrak-Pengembangan Menara Telekomunikasi pertumbuhan tidak dapat dihindari. Dengan demikian, pemerintah setempat membuat peraturan lokal tentang Perencanaan dan Pengendalian Menara Telekomunikasi untuk menghindari pembangunan Menara Telekomunikasi secara ilegal karena membuat pengurangan di lahan terbuka dan juga mengurangi nilai estetika dari wilayah spasial. Peneliti melakukan penelitian tentang penerapan metode haversine pada suatu sistem informasi geografis diharapkan dapat menyederhanakan proses pengukuran jarak untuk penentuan Menara Telekomunikasi terhadap bentuk elips bumi.

Abstract—This paper proposes and implements a low cost object tracking system using GPS and GPRS. The system allows a user to view the present and the past positions recorded of a target object on Google Map through the internet. The system reads the current position of ...

An increasing number of new geolocation services are exploiting the new capabilities of smartphones, most of which incorporate GPS location. There are fewer applications for providing indoor location, partly due to the cost of the required infrastructure. In this paper, we present QR-Maps, a simple and efficient tool that can be used in smartphones to obtain accurate indoor user locations. This tool employs QR-Codes containing a short text which indicates locations shown within a custom Google map. The proposed solution is cheaper than other approaches based on wireless technologies.

The process of cartography and the ideological problems that accompany this process has taken on new significance in the digital age with the proliferation of digital maps and geographic information systems such as Google Earth. This study begins by analyzing the history of digital mapping and its connection to an indexical, ontological reality. I demonstrate how Google Earth, by incorporating a social network that engages users as embodied interactors rather than disembodied voyeurs, is able to present usergenerated content and dialog spatially on the very object that such content critiques. Ultimately, this study argues for ways that users can recontextualize and subvert 'master representations' of visual media within the authorial structure rather than re-authoring the existing software and structures.

One of the greatest challenges for computing today involves providing access to large volumes of distributed multimedia data. Mapping and personal navigation are among the most interesting applications involving this challenge, since they require access to static (such as street maps) and dynamic (such as traffic conditions) geospatial data. Such applications are currently the focus of much attention, considering that hardware is improving and wireless networks are becoming ubiquitous. Access to online maps is mainly done through proprietary and thematically limited geographic information services, such as Google Maps. A more interesting alternative for mobile applications is to use sources from spatial data infrastructures based on the Open Geospatial Consortium's standardized Web services, such as the Web Map Service (WMS). WMS, however, imposes a high communications overhead and power consumption to the mobile device, and has a limited scalability potential. This paper presents a proposal for the development of an SDI environment in which some of these challenges can be adequately met, from both a geoinformatics and a mobile computing perspective.

People who have impaired vision regularly use white canes and/or guide dogs to assist in obstacle avoidance. Guide dogs can also be of limited assistance for finding the way to a remote location, known as "wayfinding". Several electronic devices are currently available for providing guidance to a remote location, but these tend to be expensive, or make use of a Braille interface. This project investigated the suitability of a user centered client server approach for the development of a talking GPS system intended to fill a niche for outdoor wayfinding. The work resulted in a working prototype proof-of-concept system that uses a speech-recognition speech-synthesis interface. The prototype solution includes a custom web application which accesses the Google maps API. The system is intended to be scalable and extensible with additional features such as sensors for obstacle avoidance and access to web-based information such as weather, train or bus timetable information. The client server approach was found to be suitable for the development of this type of application.