AN APPLICATION OF A PILOT PROJECT OF ISTANBUL URBAN INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR PLANNING AND
PUBLIC WORKS OF DISTRICT MUNICIPALITIES
BATUK, F. G., ALKIS, A., Yildiz Technical University, Geodesy and Photogrammetry Department, Istanbul, Turkey
ISPRS Commission IV, Working Group 1
KEY WORDS: GIS, Urban, Analysis, Design, Urban Information System, Planning and Public Works, Pilot Project
Application.
ABSTRACT
The aim of this paper is to present a study which is the design of urban information system that includes in public
works and planning activities of district municipalities of Istanbul (the largest metropolitan city of Turkey) and the
application of a pilot project with the outlines and the results.
In this study, activities in the city, and how they are managed, and data, operations, products, problems in the
activities, and expectations from system are determined and evaluated by system analysis. According to the result of
analysis logical and physical design of the urban information system has been created. The logical design of
operations and data have been transformed to a physical design by taking the available personal computer and PC
ARC/INFO software into account. The designed application programs have been written in SML macro language of the
software. This design and application programs have been tested and applied with the data of pilot project area that
includes urban characteristics.
Besides that, in this paper, experiences in this study, some proposals for UIS, GIS projects which are available in the
future are submitted.
% INTRODUCTION
In the cities which are rapidly growing and developing in
the world, GIS have been used as a tool for controlling of
urbanization, taking decision to form and estimate of
present, effectively executing of city activities. Local
government has numerous, diverse uses for GIS,
including tax assessment and collection, maintenance of
property records, dispatch of emergency service vehicles,
planning, zoning, permitting, traffic engineering,
operation of public works and utilities, road maintenance,
map production, and engineering design and drafting
(Antenucci et al, 1991). In the cities of Turkey GIS
projects have been produced and attempted since 1980's
too. But in any municipalities and cities of Turkey the UIS
which is working productively aren't used.
The aim of this paper is to present the study which is a
design of UIS that includes in planning and public works
activities of district municipalities in the Metropolitan Area
of istanbul and the application of the pilot project. In the
study, activities are limited by data capture and analytic
study stages of generating implementation plan,
implementing plans executed by district municipalities,
issuing building permit and settlement permit and inspect
of existent constructions. Besides that, implementing the
UIS should get execution of the activities works to be
more rapidly, more economic and more productive and
much more transparent anticipated from study. Also
system should be cheaper, simpler and manageable by
personnel computer (Batuk, 1995).
2. DEVELOPING OF THE UIS FOR PLANNING AND
PUBLIC WORKS OF DISTRICT MUNICIPALITIES
In this study, for developing the UIS, following steps are
determined by utilizing from various researches, projects,
methods particularly SSADM (Batuk, 1995). These are:
* Definition of the system,
* Analysis and feasibility study; determination of
existence status in the activities, definition of
requirements, feasibility study,
* Design; planning of establish and organization for
the system, system design, data design, process
design, physical design,
* Implementation; selection and installation of
hardware and software, installation of data base,
creating of application programs, testing of system
with pilot project, preparation of application,
* Application and maintenance; following of events,
adaptation of changes, enhancement, corrective
maintenance.
2.1. Definition of UIS
Public works mean to change the nature of the earth or to
rebuild the existence of it by people for their happiness
and welfare. The public works, which are executed with
share by the municipality and the district municipalities in
the Turkey, are;
* planning; generating of the base map, plan (master,
implementation) and utility project, and implementing
of the plan,
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