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Administration- to position tourist objects (hotels, restaurants, 
sights, event location or other touristic objects) onto map. To 
integrate tourist information and GIS data, the location of each 
tourist object, to be integrated on to map has to be identified by 
geographic coordinate. All user can identify the object location 
of their objects by selecting the objects position on the map. 
After positioning the object, the geographical coordinates will 
be calculated by the GIS system and will be stored in the GIS 
database. At map creation the object will be represented on the 
map by means of a meaningful object symbol, the object name, 
the category if the object is an hotel. The object symbols are 
linked with the object homepages to enable further navigation. 
Application-to search for tourist objects. On a functional view, 
the application uses a geographic search to perform complex 
geographic queries to search for tourist objects like hotels, 
restaurants, event location, etc. A thematic mapper is used to 
integrate tourism information and GIS data build tourist maps. 
A hotel search can be a time-based search and extends the map 
with availability information of rooms. To guarantee a sensible 
use, the user will have the possibility to zoom in 7 out to change 
the scale of the map, to scroll in the map and to print as well 
(Pühretmair, 2000). 
4. CONCLUSION 
Designing and marketing a geoinformation product requires an 
approach, which does not start from data collection methods but 
from he user's need: the geoinformation product must provide 
an information useful and valuable to the user. Content, 
appropriate data quality and presentation must meet the user's 
expectations. Most tourism information system still has 
backlogs in using new visualization capabilities. The approach 
described in this paper represents a new approach to integrate 
GIS data and tourism data on Web is implemented so many 
people can share the data. Dynamically generated, interactive 
tourist maps offer a variety of trend-setting functionalities like 
integration of vector shapes, images and text, high performance 
zooming and panning inside of graphics without reloading data, 
support of scripting languages in combination with the 
possibility of all related technologies. Tourist maps in 
information system offer a powerful, clear and user-friendly 
access to tourism data with great benefits for tourists and 
substantial advantages for tourism information systems because 
maps change from static raster graphics to interactive graphical 
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representations allowing the presentation of the most extensive 
information possible thus satisfying the demands of the users. 
When people serve and publish data on the Internet, other 
people can access and browse these data simultaneously. 
Because of this, GIS on the Web is an in expensive method for 
reaching a vast audience. Both offers the tourist more exact and 
more meaningful information to meet their quality claims 
(Cabuk). 
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Acknowledgements 
Authors would like to thank to the Chamber of Surveyors 
(TMMOB-HKMO) for their financial support of this study to be 
presented in the ISPRS 2004 Congress.