Design and implementation web based geographic information system for public services in Bandar Lampung City — Indonesia

The work on this paper has point of view on development of public service geographic information system at Bandar Lampung City. The idea of this application deployment was driven to provide a better public services for the citizens. Currently, information of public service locations category which are needed by the citizens those are; lodging/housing information, health facilities, government office, service station, worship place, traditional market, modern market, banking, culinary, sports facilities, tourism, industry, police station, school/university place, tour and travel. The developed application enables the possibility to locate the public service information through web page easily. In this research, deployment of public services application based on Unified Modeling Language (UML) approach, including the use case model, activity diagram, and object diagram. The authors also explored usage of several non commercial applications under General Public License that is; apache2 web server, PHP5 programming language, MySQL5 for data base server, Google Maps API as base map of city visualization. A lot of public service information on Bandar Lampung city have been gathered, which are emerged the location on application including its picture, short video, and short description about the places. This application can be easily integrated with existing of city government web portal by using XML data transport technology, to improved a better public service for the citizens.

I. Introduction

Bandar Lampung is the capital and economic hub of Lampung province, Indonesia. The city's area is about 197.22 km², consist of 13 districts and total 98 sub-districts with 879,651 total populations on this city, census data 2010 [1].