A Geo-Referenced Information System for Tourism (GeoRIST)

This paper presents a georeferenced information system (GeoRIST) for national and international tourists or the travelling community visiting to Agra enabling them to find their interest in city and ask for information about sights, accommodations and other places of interest which are nearby them by analyzing and displaying the tourism objects in geographic context on interactive tourist maps. The developed system is the application of Internet based Geographic Information System (GIS) which integrates spatial database, statistical data and textual information in order to develop a data model providing proper and complete information for analysis and planning. The whole system lives in a common webbased application implemented in ASP.Net with C#.Net MapScript, Ajax and exploiting MapServer for GIS functionalities and PostGIS for its connection with the PostgreSQL database containing road network, infrastructure of the area and data about hospitality, tourism activities and facilities.