Abstract

Status and Vision of Seoul GIS
Track: State and Local Government
Authors: Dongwoo Jang, Daegun Park, Moongie Kim

The paper will touch about how Seoul e-government is using in its work process and service to citizens. The GIS mainly consists of the GIS portal and Mobile GIS. It also handles the future plans for the Seoul GIS. The comprehensive Seoul GIS come through three phases: expansion of e-government in 2005; launch of ubiquitous government in 2007; and achieving world's best ubiquitous government in 2010. The Seoul GIS portal represents a spatial data infrastructure designed for Seoul citizens. The goal of this system is to provide one-stop GIS service. It currently offers 600 kinds of geographic layers with 15 contents categories. The 3D GIS web service was launched in April, 2008. In particular, Virtual Reality makes users feel like they are feel like they are actually at the site. The Seoul Metropolitan Government completed the construction of a mobile GIS platform in March, 2009.