For the First Time on the UASVM-CN Campus? A Web Application that Assists in the Identification of Classrooms

Abstract

The campus of the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca (UASVM-CN) is known as a green oasis in a busy town. The campus area is »26 ha and finding certain locations here can be challenging for new students or visitors. Overall, the evolution of technologies, smartphones, tablets, facilitate new software approaches to classical situations such as finding a classroom on a huge campus. The main aim of our research is to design and deploy a web application that assists visitors in finding a classroom on the campus. The design and development of the web application are based on ArcGIS online, i.e. a GIS that allows the transformation of spatial data into web maps and web application. The geospatial data are conveyed into thematic maps of the footprints for 2 of the buildings on the campus: ICHAT and Horticulture. The geodatabase used for these buildings was enriched with specific data needed for classrooms’ characterisation. Web application allows to fix the user’s position on the campus map and, using the search options, the map will zoom to the building where the classroom is located, emphasizing its position on the surveying plan.