The Society of Convergence Knowledge Transactions ISSN:2287-8920(Print) 융복합지식학회논문지

In the early 2000s, local governments nationwide began a project to build Urban Information Systems (UIS). The UIS project was carried out with the aim of establishing an integrated database and GIS-based system of urban infrastructure such as roads and water and sewage. Most of the systems were client-server (C/S) and were upgraded to become a web-based GIS system. In this process, foreign GIS systems, software, and DBMS were used, and many local governments and developers still maintain and operate them at the expense of licensing. If foreign products were essential in the absence of alternative systems and software, the software paradigm has diversified over a long period of time, and one of them is the development of systems and software using open sources. The use of such open source has a great advantage of reducing costs in terms of maintenance and operation of GIS systems and software that require the above-mentioned upgrade. However, open source does not necessarily mean good, and data accuracy and operational convenience must be secured. If the conditions are satisfied, it is possible to see the effect of reducing the maintenance and operation cost of the supplier and the license cost of the supplier. Since the GIS system built once for each local government usually uses five to eight years, reducing maintenance and operation costs has the effect of reducing a lot of budget. Therefore, this study aims to confirm whether it is possible to build a web-based GIS system using open source and to present a method of building a web GIS system using ESRI Shapefile, which is most commonly used in the GIS system.