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

  • Florica MATEI Faculty of Forestry and Cadastre, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Calea Mănăştur 3-5, Cluj-Napoca, 400372, România
  • Ioana POP Faculty of Forestry and Cadastre, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Calea Mănăştur 3-5, Cluj-Napoca, 400372, România
  • Tudor SĂLĂGEAN Faculty of Forestry and Cadastre, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Calea Mănăştur 3-5, Cluj-Napoca, 400372, România
  • Jutka DEAK Faculty of Forestry and Cadastre, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Calea Mănăştur 3-5, Cluj-Napoca, 400372, România
  • Elemer Emanuel ŞUBA Faculty of Forestry and Cadastre, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Calea Mănăştur 3-5, Cluj-Napoca, 400372, România
  • Lucia Adina TRUŢĂ Faculty of Forestry and Cadastre, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Calea Mănăştur 3-5, Cluj-Napoca, 400372, România
  • Cristian BUKOS Faculty of Forestry and Cadastre, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Calea Mănăştur 3-5, Cluj-Napoca, 400372, România
  • Cristian MĂLINAŞ Faculty of Forestry and Cadastre, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Calea Mănăştur 3-5, Cluj-Napoca, 400372, România
Keywords: Spatial geodatabase; ArcGIS online; web maps; web application.

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.

Published
2024-11-15