IMPROVEMENT IN THE USABILITY OF GIS BASED SERVICES BY APPLYING SEMANTIC ONTOLOGY

Abhiijt Manepatil, P.R.Barapatre

Abstract: After the invention of GIS Based services in the web and the desktop areas it becomes the most widely used services over the internet and because of its tremendous capabilities of giving accurate and most efficient information about GIS related queries of particular organizations, for users or industries these services are on the peak of popularity. Now a days there are lots of options available in the market who provides these GIS related functionalities to the users such as for e.g. ArcMap, GRASS and Google map APIs etc. This system improves the user usability on geo services. Purpose of this system to develop a user convenient system related to GIS that help any normal user to handle it in its natural way. User do a spatial thinking in his/her mind according to that some natural question where generated from this system take that questions as it is and make that questions. Filter those questions in a way that system can understand it and produce an exact result. Semantic concept gives a common and meaningful data format by integrating this concept in GIS which will come to know as Geosemantic. OWL files provide well defined relationship between the object by mapping with real word things.

Keywords: GIS, Semantic, Geosemantic, OWL, Spatial thinking

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0302089