Öğrenci:	Abdurrahman GEYMEN
Danışman:	Prof. Dr. Tahsin YOMRALIOĞLU
Anabilim Dalı:	Jeodezi ve Fotog. Müh.
Enstitü:	Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü
Üniversite:	Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi

Tez Adı:	DEVELOPING A PROTOTYPE DYNAMIC-STRUCTURED URBAN INFORMATION SYSTEM SOFTWARE DIRECTED TO SPATIAL BASED ACTIVITIES FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
Tezin Türü:	Doktora
Kabul Tarihi:	2/6/2006
Sayfa Sayısı:	194
Tez No:	I543

Özet:

Depending on the developments, today, the basic services provided in urban spaces are

in the process of constant changes and improvements. And the administrative functions have

become more complicated in terms of making prompt and accurate decisions. In addition to

the written documents, it is especially important for local governments which provide

technical services in urban areas to have a fast and reliable access to the updated map based

spatial information. In this respect, the Urban Information System (UIS) technologies are

very effective decision support tools for urban governance. UIS is a spatial based

information system organizing and managing all types of graphic or non-graphic spatial

information needed by local governments. However, the UIS has not been utilized

sufficiently due to ineffective administrative tradition prevalent in Turkey, especially in

municipal governments, and due to problems of updating the information.

In this study, a prototypical interface software for an Urban Information System is

developed and designed so as the data are shared and updated dynamically to increase

functional efficiency of location-based services provided by medium sized municipalities.

For this purpose, first of all, a basic administration model is developed through a detailed

examination of the administrative structures of the municipal governments, the technical

departments in charge of spatial information, and the spatial data that are needed by these

departments. Then, based on these analyses, a software algorithm comprising of interface

modules with basic functions is developed and applied. This is more cost effective software

free of hardware, which is flexible and user friendly, and is adoptable extensively.

Therefore, all spatial based services of municipal governments can be processed in real-time

and in digital format. This prototype software (DEVKBS V.1.0) is based on ArcView 3.x

GIS, written in Avenue Macro language, and Visual Basic 6.0.

With this software developed, in addition to dynamic management of spatial data,

users are given the ability to monitor all map-based activities requested from municipal

governments on-line from the application phase to the end. The system is tested in selected

municipalities to inspect requirements, problems, data quality, and software-hardware

components, and developed with such a modular structure so as to contribute to the

utilization of UIS in Turkey.

Keywords: Geographical Information System, Urban Information System, Local

Governments, Municipalities, Spatial Information System, ArcView, Internet.