Integration and Application of Fundamental Geographical Information Framework for Digital City

  • Qiao, Yanyou (Institute of Remote Sensing Applications) ;
  • Tang, Zhengyuan (Yangzhou Information Administration Office) ;
  • Fang, Dingfa (Yangzhou Information Administration Office) ;
  • Wu, Guoqing (Yangzhou Information Administration Office) ;
  • Wang, Wei (Yangzhou Information Administration Office)
  • Published : 2003.11.03

Abstract

The importance of Fundamental Geographical Information Framework for Digital City (FGFDC) is analysed, it provides all city agencies and units with uniform geographic references. Six kind of data are chosen as the core data sets of a FGDC, a web-based distributed mechanism is constructed to promote data sharing among different agencies. Elementary functional requirements of FGDC are analyzed, so that it can serve as a common distributed urban GIS. A practical FGFDC is developed for Yangzhou Development Administrative Region, and an 3D visualization system is developed within this framework.

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