Spatial information management for health campus: An application

The importance of information has been realized by today?s communities that our time is called the ?information age? and on this issue, countries have engaged in a great race. In this age, information is considered as a source and it might be optimized (Yomralıoğlu, 1994).Use of information technology comes to the fore as a reflection of the transition process on the information age. As in all disciplines, it is also required as well as in the realization of the map-based applications to use information effectively with taking the maximum advantage of information. Particularly, spatial aided graphic and non-graphic information, which is described as mapping information, needs to be integrated within a system.Universities are assumed as the leader institutions that inform the society so today also they must be the institutions that use information most effectively. It is also inevitable for the development of the universities to evaluate and update information and obtain new information with them. So universities are required to establish a system that based on an information technology in order to serve with the understanding of modern management.In this paper, spatial information system?s design and implementation was carried out using Geographic Information Technologies regarding to the case study with emphasizing how such a system?s basic infrastructure should be.With this study, an environment was provided for making graphic and non-graphic questioning about the study area, after an appropriate database structure was created by transferring the basic map layers into the computer. For this purpose, it was used ArcMap and ArcCatalog software, which are technological tools of Geographic Information System, in order to collecting data and processing queries. Thus, with the appropriate software and hardware, required test studies carried out under the project.Keywords: Spatial information system, geographic information systems, campus information system