Design and Implementation of Campus Spatial Information Service Based on Google Maps Yang Yang The Research Center for East-West Cooperation in China, East China Normal University, 200062 Shanghai, People’s Republic of China 51080801042@student.ecnu.edu.cn Jianghua Zheng Oasis Ecology Key Lab of National Education Bureau, Xinjiang University, 830046 Urumqi, People’s Republic of China itslbs@126.com Jianhua Xu The Research Center for East-West Cooperation in China, East China Normal University, 200062 Shanghai, People’s Republic of China jhxu@geo.ecnu.edu.cn Shouyi Lin The Research Center for East-West Cooperation in China, East China Normal University, 200062 Shanghai, People’s Republic of China linshouyi86@163.com Abstract—Using the programmable interfaces provided by Google Maps, we create a campus spatial information service system. It uses free high resolution remote sensing images as the base map and it adopts open source software and function components. Making full use of the network data and combining Google Maps and MySQL database, it provides users with rich and interactive information such as the picture, description, link and the useful measurement tool. With a breakthrough compared with the traditional system which is manager-oriented and closed, the system uses the current prevalent B/S model and absorbs the Mashup idea on the platform architecture design .These expand the scope of service people and reduce the developing difficulties and cost remarkably. The system integrates some promising key technologies of Web2.0 and pushes forward the applying of Public Participate GIS. All these make better service of personalized and humanistic digital campus. Keywords-GoogleMaps API;digital campus;open source;spatial information service I. INTRODUCTION Campus spatial information service is a essential part of the "digital campus", which is supported by campus geographic information systems and network technology to collect, organize, summarize, storage, analysis and optimize the various campuses information, thus a variety of campus resources, ecological environment, teaching environment, entities and phenomena can be simulated, performed and analyzed. Campus spatial information service is designed for school teachers ,students and foreign visitors to provide valuable information about campus-related information, such as the layout of the campus building, location based service, school scenery introduction to help foreign visitors and the netizens to quickly understand the overall layout of the campus, etc. [1] . There have been some digital campus applications both at home and abroad and most of these systems or applications are manager-oriented and adopted component-based software tools for GIS web publishing, mainly based on vector data [2][3][4] . In this paper, the system uses the current prevalent B/S model and absorbs the Mashup idea on the platform architecture design with a breakthrough compared with the traditional system which is manager-oriented and closed. Making full use of the network data and combining Google Maps and MySQL database, it can provide users with rich and interactive information features of Xinjiang University such as the relevant features of the picture, description, link and implementation of the practical measurement. Based on open source software, the cost of the system is low and it has independent intellectual property rights. II. SYSTEM ANALYZE As a spatial information service system, it is necessary to break through the traditional information system model that users as passive recipients of information by providing visualization, simple, rich and useful information, so that the presentations of spatial information are actively showed to users, communicated with users and allowed users to participate into the construction and perfection of the whole system. Traditional spatial campus information services are main for school leaders or managers with the quite narrow and limited service population and the systems are closed; Traditional systems use graphical user interface of the map as a background, which required the users have a certain map- reading skills and raise the user's threshold. While this system is web-based and uses high-resolution satellite images as a background, the user does not need that basic knowledge to understand and expand the scope of service people. All of these make spatial information quickly and easily to the user. The characteristics of the system are: 978-1-4244-4639-1/09/$25.00 ©2009 IEEE