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Pakistan Journal of Science (Vol. 65 No. 1 March, 2013) of population accommodation in hostel for students is becoming insufficient (Onyike, and Olachi, 2010). Student gets the form from respective department and present to hostel management for allotment for a room. Problem arises when department management enrolls a student and he does not get accommodation in any hostel. Sometime hostel management provides shelter to illegal residents because there is no coordination system exists between department and hostel management. Database is the key solution to this problem and easy for every student, department management and hostel management to find out the room using spatial and non-spatial attributes query. In this regard each department has its own format for storing and retrieving the data. These departments store data in word and excel sheet. It has high probability of gathering same type of data and storage in many places concurrently. At present the component of GIS or use of GIS technologies do not exist in the department management or hostel management of the university. Thus, an attempt has been made for a system based on GIS capabilities; moreover data sharing between department and hostel of the universality can be done efficiently and simply. Study Area: University of the Punjab has a great importance for this country. University of the Punjab is located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. It is established in October 14, 1882. It is 18,000 acres (7 square km) area. It has beautiful landscape. It is hub of administrative and academic activities. University has 25,000 regular student and 25 hostels. GIS based hostel management database is created to manage the spatial data and attribute data. With the help of GIS system it is easy to handle student data which is continuing changing after six months or a year. Hostel staff, warden and superintendent and student information retrieval is fast and easy to manage. Other than the human management it is also a tool of immoveable property and asset management. It does not only give better understandings of building infrastructure but also give a platform for helping the authorities to take progressive decisions based on complex analysis in short time period by using modern technologies. According to our study, presently now all work is done in simple software like word and excel. The clerk of the hostel manages the student list in registers and excels files. And these files are then shared with the departments and kept for record. We have satellite image and a hard copy map too but there is not too much accuracy. So for removing the errors from the available data we will collect data from staff, expertise, internet, maps and some other resources. Goal of this project is to not only clear our understandings about GIS capabilities but also a significance role to provide platform for knowing about mapping techniques. Goal of this project is to digitally map the infrastructure of new campus according to cartographic techniques to convey better understandings Figure 1: Study Area 151
Pakistan Journal of Science (Vol. 65 No. 1 March, 2013) Figure 2: Study Area METHODOLOGY Spatial information was obtained through ground survey, scanned maps and satellite imagery, while the attribute information was obtained from the hostel management and the department of the university. Six layers were created – i.e. layers for Building Food prints, First floor, Second floor, Third floor, Path ways, Trees. 152
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