Web Mapping Applications Urban land uses in the city of Kirkuk-Iraq (Case study on Hay al Askari)

Abstract

The research presents a study on how to prepare an advanced database and employ web maps available on the Internet through the application of the (GIS Online) system in the city of Kirkuk, a case study through designing effective maps on a website that allows the data to be displayed effectively in order to encourage the user to make a decision. This application was used to prepare land use maps (health, educational, recreational, religious, other, land area) over the research area, adopting open source data, and drawing spatial layers of land use on an individual basis through the use of spatial symbols available in the application interface. Then compiled into a final map that can be made available to decision makers.

Keywords

• web maps, land use modeling, geographic information systems on the Internet, database.