Development of a Simple Web-based GIS System for Sustainable Housing Projects VisualizatioN

This paper presents a simple web-based GIS system for visualization of Baan Mankong, as known as sustainable housing projects for communities of low-incomers in Thailand. The Baan Mankong project has been so successful that numbers of projects initialized have been increasing during the past couple of years. The projects information is gathered in a huge database, but there is a lack of visualization tool to help the officers and executives to have a global view of the projects spatial distribution and to have a quick access to project information. GIS is proposed as a tool to be developed on the web for the visualization of this project. The Baan Mankongis work flow and project information are studied in order to select only necessary information to be stored in the system. Then, the geographic visualization tool development process is presented