Spatial Data Based E-government Applications

E-government concept, defined as the use of information technologies (Wide Area Networks, the Internet, and mobile computing) that have the ability to transform relations between citizens, businesses, and other branch of the government, has been adopted by many government agencies. In general, there are two most important applications; interactive web maps that can be queried on Internet and spatial data based e-government information that can be accessed by the clients or public on the Internet. In Turkey, in spite of fact that non-spatial data based e-government applications have shown a great improvement, there has been little progress in spatial data based e-government applications. Effective use of Web-based e-government applications reduces user time, saves money, and increases efficiency. It is highly anticipated that interest in spatial data based applications will increase as many government agencies have been recently providing spatial data based services in Turkey. This paper discusses spatial data based egovernment application being developed to allow the user to access e-government spatial information on the Internet. * Corresponding author.