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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