**Author details**

Rifaat Abdalla

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Department of Earth Sciences, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman

**Provisional chapter**

**Architectural Design and Prototyping of Co-PPGIS: A Groupware-Based Online Synchronous Collaborative PPGIS to Support Municipality Development and Planning Management Workflows Architectural Design and Prototyping of Co-PPGIS: A Groupware-Based Online Synchronous Collaborative PPGIS to Support Municipality Development and Planning Management Workflows**

DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.80091

Muhammad A. Butt, Syed Amer Mahmood, Javed Sami, Jahanzeb Qureshi, Muhammad Kashif Nazir, Amer Masood, Khadija Waheed and Aysha Khalid Muhammad A. Butt, Syed Amer Mahmood, Javed Sami, Jahanzeb Qureshi, Muhammad Kashif Nazir, Amer Masood, Khadija Waheed and Aysha Khalid

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#### **Abstract**

**4. Is there any way forward?**

4 Trends in Geomatics - An Earth Science Perspective

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is needed.

**Author details**

Rifaat Abdalla

Geomatics approaches and products have been widely used for many applications. This book targets many groups that are of interest to the geomatics user community. This book highlights various trends in the user side, focusing on public participation (GIS); in the geodesy and navigation sides, focusing on some mathematical modeling for geodesy; and in the growing trend of geomatics education, and a focus to provide detailed knowledge for future generation on best available solutions and best practices that utilize geomatics technologies

Department of Earth Sciences, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman

Co-PPGIS has a wide variety of applications like municipal planning, emergency response, public health and security, etc. The main focus of this chapter is on the development and design of a Web Collaborative PPGIS (Co-PPGIS) infrastructure. As part of municipality's planning and management services, Co-PPGIS is developed for real-time map sharing application system. Co-PPGIS is an effective and essential online meeting system for supporting group collaborations on geographic information such as maps and imageries, and capturing and sharing of local/domain knowledge in real time. Co-PPGIS permits amalgamation of geospatial data and collaborator's input in the form of geo-referenced notations. It incorporates coherent components as map sharing, real-time chat, video conferencing, geo-referenced textual and graphical notations. The study aims to focus on public participation and geo-collaboration facilitated with information sharing, interactive geo-conferencing, real-time map, and data sharing with tools to draw features or add annotation to the map while discussions, uploading documents, and live communication. Co-PPGIS provides an efficient and reliable platform that will significantly reduce the time to acquire, process, and analyze data. The significance of this study is to contribute to existing public participation practices, to municipal planning, to decision-making, or to geographic information science.

**Keywords:** PPGIS, GIS, GSC, participation, feedback, WWW, CSCW

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