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5.2 THE INTEGRATION OF THE BIG PUBLIC TO
THE LOCAL GIS OF ARZEW
Since the present speed of the computer means evolution,
the transmission of data by networks of telecommunication
and the apparition of the Internet these last years, we have
the attention to integrate inhabitants of the township in the
different phases of development. Of this effect and after the
reserved phase use to specialists, the Communal GIS is
called to be consulted by the big public.
In this context and in order to actually put this attention, we
worked on the setting up of Web interface on Internet for
the township of Arzew, in order to inform and to sensitize
inhabitants to changes and developments of their local
territory (Fig. 6).
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Figure 6. Excerpt of an Internet window
6. CONCLUSION AND PERSPECTIVES
More the township evolves, more it becomes complex and
more we need to mark ourselves in its space, to situate
phenomena or events and to plan evolutions. The local
collectivities are in this situation. They evolve very quickly
and are expecting a new cartography to help them in their
space management.
Today, A township desining undertaking a thought about its
geographical, topographic or fundamental heritage, is
confronted to many types of problems, that is ominous to
reduce only for the choice of a moreless powerful GIS
platform, either effictive or developed. The prime objerctive
of this study is enrolled in this context.
We have showed in the present survey the importance of a
systemic approach to model a local territory in order to
better master its complexity, and better understand how it
works and the reasons of its evolution. This put in evidence
the growing needs of harvest, management, treatment and
diffusion of a considerable mass of data and information.
Also, We have demonstrated that coherence and well
working of such system needs the design of an architecture
covering the geographical information domains, technique
and organization.
Finally, concepts application and the developed approach
for elaborating a prototype local GIS of the township of
Arzew permitted to test, affinate, adapt and validate the
different phases related to obtaining a systemic
representation of the local territory.
This conclusion shows our contribution to solve the studied
problem and makes a synthesis of the principal results
dbtained, we can say that the setting up of a local GIS is a
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promising gait on the technical and organisation plan,
howver, the local GIS remains heavy operation that requires
means, good will and time; especially who it is related to
different services, persons and responsibles.
This work opens perspectives is both application and
research domains. It stresses on the aspects to develop at the
geomatic, spatial reference data base and localized
information diffusion domains.
In the domaine of geomatic application, this work could
help geomatic communitry waiting to enlarge this study on
a larger territory than a local territory.
For the research domain, the systemic representation of the
territory can be implemented in the future on data bases
predetermined on the different available SDBMS in the
market.
Actually, especially for our country, many questions
remains asked, notably in the internal management of
services, the computering tools are not sufficient at the level
of our services, but we can reasonably estimate that our
administrations will not stay insensible and they will make
these tools professional ones.
On the other hand, problems of organization will probably
remain delicate to solve and, won't especially support the
same standardization wished for the technical means. Their
solution remains indeed closely bound to the administrative
structures, to people, to the financial means, to the political
priorities and the local conditions.
Even if a lot remains to do to make operational the set of
elements presented here in, we wish that the reflection on
the local territory modelization and it insertion to elaborate
a local GIS make progessing the knowledge and the practice
of the geomatic, also will make easy the management of the
territory, oriented to the promotion of a lasting development
for our townships and for our country.
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