Graphical Interface of Engineer Support Plan Along with automatic report generation

Abstract

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is an evolving, catchall phrase that initially referred to management of information with a geographic component primarily stored in vector form with associated attributes. This definition quickly became too restrictive with advances in software and ideas about information management. An advanced GIS system should be able to handle any spatial data, not just data tied to the ground by geographic reference points. About 15,500 years ago, on the walls of caves near Lascaux, France, Cro- Magnon hunters drew pictures of the animals they hunted. Associated with the animal drawings are track lines and tallies thought to depict migration routes. While simplistic in comparison to modern technologies, these early records mimic the two-element structure of modern GIS, an image associated with attribute information. The earliest maps were drawn almost exclusively to facilitate commercial sea voyages. On them, coasts were meticulously detailed and harbors were plumbed, while interiors remained unknown, apart from details of important trade and caravan routes. One of the oldest known maps belonged to Babylonian civilization as shown below; Fig.1 One of the oldest known maps in the world, a Babylonian cuneiform tablet dating from about 1400 b.c. The Arabs were the leading cartographers of the middle Ages. European cartographer degenerated as the Roman Empire fell. But in the fifteenth century, old skills were revived and Claudius Ptolemaeus’s Geographia was translated into Latin to become the then existent view of the world. Although cartography was neglected, in many countries property registry thrived.