Producing police precinct maps for police departments
For any cities or counties, police stations are quite important as they closely relate to residents’ lives and security. A police department is often responsible for many daily tasks to protect citizens and their property, for example, identifying potential criminal activities, preventing contraband, responding to emergencies, controlling traffic, patrolling areas by foot or car, searching suspects, etc…
SuperGIS Experience in the Use of GIS for Census Mapping Applications
In the era of “big data”, the authorities in Taiwan rely heavily on the vast amount of data when they are making a significant decision or formulating a new policy because it’s believed to be a smarter way to meet the true need of citizens…
Building a Web 3D Cadastral GIS in Kaohsiung
A good land administration system is an important indicator of whether a country could have further development. Only the government that is able to precisely measure every land within its territory, to control the ownership of each land, and to regulate their transactions will have the capability of resolving disputes between people and make long-term plans to ensure steady economic growth …
Upgrading Your Workflow of Field Inspection with SuperSurv
The environment of Taiwan is vulnerable. Over one thousand sensible earthquakes strike this island country annually, typhoons and the plum rain in late Spring often bring disastrous precipitation that can cause landslides and floods. Therefore, financial assistance from the government is frequently applied by landowners in Taiwan, especially farmers. The agriculture and economics division …
Building a Web GIS for Cadastre Management
Well-organized and comprehensive cadastral data is the key to success land management. A cadastre provides basic information about the boundary and the value of land parcels as well as the legal conditions, which are essential for negotiation between landowners and proper land use. Since the introduction of the land information system, the authorities responsible for public lands …
Accessing Taiwan’s Long-term Environmental Data with Ease
Located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, Taiwan is an island country rich in natural resources. On the convergence area of tropical and subtropical climate, there are hundreds of mountains with an elevation of more than 3000 meters high, rolling hills and vast plains on this beautiful island. All of these diverse landscapes …
Selecting Optimal Sites for Social Housing by Web GIS
Taiwan is one of the countries that have the highest population density in the world. According to the official data from Taiwan government, there are over 36 thousand people that live in per square kilometer on this island. As a result, the housing prices are inevitably high. In the capital city, Taipei, it is almost impossible for young people and disadvantaged families to buy …
Network Analysis to Assist Fuel Subsidies
Located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, Taiwan is an island formed by the continental collision of Philippine Sea Plate and Eurasian Plate. Due to this geological background, the land area of Taiwan is majorly covered by mountains and hills. According to the official data from Taiwan government, around 70 percent land area of Taiwan is over 100 meters above sea level, and there are also more than …
Adding Statistics to Transportation Decision Supporting System
Taiwan is one of the countries that have the highest population density in the world. According to the official data from Taiwan government, there are over 36 thousand people that live in per square kilometer on this island. As a result, the housing prices are inevitably high. In the capital city, Taipei, it is almost impossible for young people and disadvantaged families to buy …
Built for Effective Governance- the Statistical Map APIs in Taiwan
One of the prerequisites for effective governance is to collect detailed demographic, socioeconomic, and geographic data for the whole country, and it is the main reason makes the statistical data and topographic maps so important for every modern country. However, in the past, these two kinds of data were separately collected and stored. So did the situation in Taiwan. Just five years ago, …
Checking the Needed Cadastral Data in Seconds
SuperGIS DataConvertor is a stand-alone and powerful data conversion tool, which is able to convert files between commonly used formats and Supergeo self-defined formats. With SuperGIS DataConvertor, you don’t need to launch SuperGIS Desktop to convert data for using them in Supergeo product series and other related platforms…
The Key to Access Geospatial Open Data in Taiwan:TGOS GIS Cloud
Open data is gaining popularity recently among worldwide public sectors and citizens. In the past, data were often collected only for specific uses: tax data for taxing, traffic data for traffic control, and climate data for climate forecasting, which mostly cannot reuse by other institutions and often leads to unnecessary redundancy. But it is now changed by…
An Integrated Workflow for Cadastre Mapping
Disputing ownership of real estate often occurs in a country with long history. Before the modernization, people usually just roughly point out their properties by obvious and immovable landscapes, such as rivers, hills or artificial structures. Since landscapes often change, people used to argue or fight for…
Vendor Management GIS System
In the early of 2001, spatial information technologies were introduced by City Market Administration Office, helping to build “City Market Management GIS System” with SuperWebGIS. At that time, people don’t have Google Maps API yet; therefore, the technologies of building online GIS system somewhat fortified the task…
An Integrated Workflow for Cadastre Mapping
Disputing ownership of real estate often occurs in a country with long history. Before the modernization, people usually just roughly point out their properties by obvious and immovable landscapes, such as rivers, hills or artificial structures. Since landscapes often change, people used to argue or fight for…
Adaptation and Decision Supporting System for Agricultural Production
In recent years, the frequency of climate change and climate anomaly has been increasing gradually, causing loss of agricultural production and markedly threatening the food security of our nation. Therefore, to cope with the climate change and food security issue, a supporting system that can help administrators is needed to assess the suitable natural…
Climate Change Vulnerability Index System
In order to cope with climate change impacts, Executive Yuan, Taiwan (R.O.C.) gave approval to the Policy Guidelines of Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change, conveying the vison, the target, the strategy and the necessity for Taiwan to adapt for the current and future climate changes. For the major highway-railway construction, one of the main infrastructures for…
Land Use Investigation System of Feitsui Reservoir Catchment Area
For comprehending and tracing the information and transformation of land use of Feitsui Reservoir’s catchment area, ensuring environmental and ecological stability and preventing illegal land use and pollutions around the reservoir, Taipei Feitsui Reservoir Administration arranged the “Land Use and Transformation of Catchment Area Management…
The Brain of Taiwan Smart Cities: A GIS Platform for Sharing 2D and 3D Maps and Information
A smart city is defined to improve urban environment, trim costs of city development and energy consumption through technologies to provide citizens with a friendlier city. The core of developing a smart city is to integrate information in domains to make an efficient city. Therefore, building an information sharing platform would be the very first step…
Climate Change Vulnerability Index System
In order to cope with climate change impacts, Executive Yuan, Taiwan (R.O.C.) gave approval to the Policy Guidelines of Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change, conveying the vison, the target, the strategy and the necessity for Taiwan to adapt for the current and future climate changes. For the major highway-railway construction, one of the main infrastructures for…
Statistics Map APIs Service Platform
Applying map website to display statistical data becomes a trend in domains. Statistics map enables viewers to comprehend meanings of statistical data through its intuitive and geographic characteristics. Department of Statistics, Ministry of the Interior, Taiwan (ROC) needs to build a service platform that integrates social and economic statistical data in Taiwan…