GIS In Al-Ain Municipality

In the municipality the applications and uses of information systems are many and varied, where the database contains information on all types and designs of geographic information and data. The size and the type of designs depend on the size of the municipality, its applications, responsibility and the number of partitions used for this system.

·         Lands, Housing & Properties :

This is the most important applications of GIS used in municipality , where they are stored with the sorting and handling fee and all geographic information and data on housing and land administration, and the issuance of building permits and follow-up and draw Alkrukiat " Street Draw  "and other functions of the Lands Department in the municipality. Also it can develop this system and information base to include the Land Information System, and that contain the information base on accurate data on the location and use of scientific methods for the determination of identifying areas and lengths of the dimensions of the ribs of housing and land to calculate the duties and taxes that depend on an area of ​​land or housing and other applications are described Applications in land information systems, if needed from the Department of Land.

·         Naming and numbering of streets :

Al-Ain municipality has special section of naming and numbering the streets of the importance of this service at the city level which provides the convenience and speed to identify the sites and addresses for the delivery of postal services, health and security, and others, as well as to identify the sites and important centers in the city to study work and proper planning to develop the city in urban and demographic and economic. Among the most important applications in these sections to provide digital maps of streets, houses and government centers and private and archaeological sites and others to all users within and beyond the municipality . In addition to facilitating follow-up and maintenance of the signboards of streets and houses for renovation or repair in  case broken them down due to traffic accidents, storms and strong winds that blow sometimes on cities. Also GIS helps in the preparation of appropriate programs and developed to update street names and numbers of housing from time to time, and add the street names and numbers of housing in the neighborhoods and the new schemes, and provide this information digitally to the departments within and outside the municipality, which need this information.

·         Planning and zoning  :

Departments of planning and zoning are very important in the preparation of maps and planning information digitally to the work of the necessary studies, and to identify the growth and needs of the city of houses and streets and commercial centers, services and facilities, and distribution of this information at the city level and provide comfort and services to all residents and facilitate business available in the city.

·         Accidents  and memorandum :

Al Ain Municipality provides basic services to the city in cooperation with the police and security services, traffic and electricity and service companies. Therefore, the section of the Accident and memorandum provide all the geographic information and data that show the locations of roads, housing, community centers and schools and other services to those responsible to take advantage of them by specialization.

·         Roads and transportations  :

Of the main responsibilities of the municipal work necessary studies for the construction of roads, identify trends; create car parks, footpaths and trucks. Also its specialize in Roads and Transportations to do the necessary studies and implementation of using information and systems needed to be done, and follow-up change and renewal in these studies; to be a traffic and pedestrian flow at all times and the applications of these systems as well as the preparation of engineering studies and geography necessary for new proposals; to open or create the streets and roads in the city in cooperation with the competent departments, such as engineering or technical department in the municipality.

·         Engineering design and mapping:

 In engineering department, they preparing maps and mapping the spatial, organizational maps, planning maps, engineering maps and other departments' maps within the municipality. With the development of computer systems and the appearance of geographic information systems which stored and updated automatically and print maps instead of traditional methods of hand delivery, So as to be the most important uses of these applications to provide all the maps automatically to all departments of the Municipality .الاستماقراءة صوتية للكلمات

·         Planning  for Recreational services :

Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Resources staff use GIS in locating new parks and greenways, initial site design, creating maps for participants, and preparing for special events.

·         Characteristics of a human population (Demographics) :

Demographics data are the characteristics of a human population include gender, age, income, disabilities, educational attainment, home ownership, employment status, and even location. Demographic trends describe the changes in demographics in a population over time (for example, the average age of a population may increase or decrease over time). Both distributions and trends of values within a demographic variable are of interest.