Capabilities of multimedia gis |
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| Authors: | Soomro Tariq Rahim Kougen Zheng Saidu Turay Yunhe Pan |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, 310027 Hangzhou, P. R. China |
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| Abstract: | A geographical information system (GIS) is used to capture, store,
retrieve, analyzed and display the spatial (locationally defined) data. In contrast to traditional
GIS, multimedia GIS is not only able to collect, analyze and store the data in traditional formats
i.e. text, images (pictures) and graphs but also audio (sound), animations and video (moving
pictures) as well. In this paper the advantages of multimedia GIS over traditional GIS are
explained. Multimedia GIS is fully capable of providing services to both technical and non
technical users and users of multimedia GIS can retain more knowledge than users of
traditional GIS. It can be applied to various fields such as tourism, environment, education etc.
Some implementation issues such as data updating, information retrieval and data
compression etc. are also addressed. Finally, future development of MMGIS (using new
multimedia technologies such as Virtual Reality and Virtual Reality Modeling Language) is
discussed. |
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| Keywords: | GIS multimedia GIS multimedia database virtual reality virtual reality modeling language |
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