Abstract
In recent years, people’s need to participate to decision making, especially when it concerns inalienable human rights such as health and living in a healthy environment, has become increasingly manifest. In order to meet the request for environmental information sharing on the web and to make citizens feel “partakers” in the development of environmental policies, the Physical Agents Simple Operative Unit of ARPA Puglia, developed an open source WebGIS as a communication, participation and working tool for both Citizens and Technicians.
This paper proposes an efficient approach to customize and integrate an open source WebGIS system based on MapServer and Pmapper. The layout of the WebGIS was customized by filling pages in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to make it intuitive and easy to use. The features offered are those commonly provided by a WebGIS system, in particular: geographical navigation (pan, zoom, zoom to selection), query time and multiple layers, transparency level options, printing and exporting of current image views or pdf files. Environmental data results from a query can be downloaded in pdf, kml and shp formats. The possibility to download files is a key component of the system as it allows the average expert user to find data in an easily and processable format.
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Caradonna, G., Figorito, B., Tarantino, E. (2015). Sharing Environmental Geospatial Data Through an Open Source WebGIS. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2015. ICCSA 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9157. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21470-2_40
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