A WEB-BASED GIS DEVELOPMENT FOR NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

The goal of this research is to study the internet geographic information system (internet GIS) related to the natural resources and environmental management, study performance and limitations of GIS through www technology. Web-based GIS was designed and development for natural resources and environmental management of Mahasarakham Province. Research methods include analysis of the current system and data collecting significant. The database system was developing by using the Free Open Source Software (FOSS) such as: Map Window GIS, MS4W, Google Maps, Minnesota MapServer, PHPMyAdmin, MySQL server, etc. The results showed that the ability of GIS to improve the overall system is a Web Service Mapping is the ability to access information through the Internet, the system can display spatial data, data narrative and descriptive data can be handled via the Internet to achieve maximum benefit from their use.