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DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN URBAN GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION 
SYSTEM FOR CITY OF SHIRAZ (SHIRAZ GIS) 
H.Ebadi ?, M.Taleii ^ 
^^ Faculty of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering, K.N.Toosi University of Technology, P.O.Box: 15875-4416, 
Postcode: 19697, Tehran, Iran 
* Assistant professor - Ebadi(G)kntu.ac.ir, ^ Ph.D Student - Mtaleii(gyyahoo.com 
Commission VI, WG VI/4 
KEY WORDS: Urban GIS, Municipality, ShirazGIS, Design, Implementation 
ABSTRACT: 
Rapid and continuous development and population growth, as well as economical, cultural and social complexities, are some of the 
main characteristics of big cities in the world. 
Due to variety and complexity of required information for urban planning as well as the requirements to integrate information for 
optimal management of urban activities and finally decision making, using an Urban Geographical Information System is a necessity. 
This paper describes design and implementation of a Geographical Information System (GIS) for city of Shiraz. Municipality of 
Shiraz started this project from early 2000. Different stages of this project will be explained in detail. 
1. INTRODUCTION 
City of Shiraz (Capital of Fars province) is located in south part 
of Iran. Municipality of Shiraz has several duties such as; 
creation and management of city passages, supervision on 
construction of buildings, offering and management of different 
public services and etc. 
Collection, integration and analysis of required information for 
achieving the above mentioned tasks require a computerized 
urban information system. Such a system should have the 
capability of displaying, storing and analyzing of data in such a 
way that it provides the Municipality's decision makers with 
appropriate information for optimal decision-making. 
As spatial data such as buildings, streets, parks and etc. are 
among the most important and widely used data required for 
urban planning. Therefore, an information system based on 
spatial data is required for municipality of Shiraz. 
Geographical Information System (GIS) with the capability of 
integrating spatial data and attribute data as well as analyzing 
them, was found to suit the municipality's requirements. 
Municipality of Shiraz decided to design and implement a GIS 
for city of Shiraz and K.N.Toosi University of Technology was 
selected to execute the project. 
It was decided to carry out the project in two main phases. The 
first phase consists of designing and implementation of a Base 
GIS to suit the general needs of various departments of 
municipality as well as other organizations such as Water and 
Sewage Corp, Communication Corp and etc. The second phase 
of the project includes designing and implementing different 
GISs for specific and unique needs of each department in the 
municipality based on the Base GIS. 
At the present time, the first phase of the project is being carried 
out. Different stages of this project are as follows which will be 
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described in detail (Croswell P. 1991, McFarland R. 1990) 
(Figurel): 
e Recognition 
e Production of spatial data 
Q Preparing some directions and guidelines for 
digital map production and feature editing. 
Q Digital map production using digital and 
analytical photogrammetric techniques. 
Q Editing and structuring spatial data to produce 
fully structured data for GIS. 
e Collecting and structuring of attribute data 
Q Preparing some directions and guidelines for 
attribute data collection and structuring. 
Q Attribute data collection and structuring. 
e Design and implementation of a Base GIS 
M Conceptual modeling 
Q Selecting GIS environment 
Q Logical modeling 
Q Physical modeling 
a Designing user interface 
Q Software development and implementing the 
system 
Q Data and software integration 
e Training 
2. RECOGNITION 
As the first stage of the project, recognition project was done in 
order to understand and recognize the status of information (i.e. 
existing spatial and attribute data) in municipality of Shiraz and 
determine user requirement to data and analysis as well as 
functionalities for GIS.