31 © 2018 Conscientia Beam. All Rights Reserved. DEVELOPMENT OF FACILITATED PARTICIPATORY SPATIAL INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR SELECTED URBAN MANAGEMENT SERVICES Ozuomba, Simeon 1+ Kalu, Constance 2 Akpasam Joseph Ekanem 3 1,2 Department of Electrical/Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom, Nigeria 3 Department of Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Akwa Ibom State University Mkpat Enin, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. (+ Corresponding author) ABSTRACT Article History Received: 4 October 2018 Revised: 8 November 2018 Accepted: 10 December 2018 Published: 31 December 2018 Keywords Spatial information system waste Management Disaster management Land administration Transportation information hub Software development Methodology. In this paper, the development of a web based spatial information system for selected urban management services in Akwa Ibom state is presented. The selected urban management services include; disaster management, waste management, land administration and land transportation information hub. Participatory evolutionary software development methodology was used in the system development and the system was implemented using Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) for the web interface, PHP Hypertext preprocessor (PHP) for the server side scripting , MySQL for the database, Google map API (Application Programming Interface) for the maps and Apache as the web server. The web application was hosted locally using WAMP server and tested with some dataset obtained in the case study area. Relevant screenshots of the webpages are also presented. The web application presented in this paper can be used to facilitate participatory urban service in any given city or state. Contribution/Originality: This study originates requisite flowcharts and accompanying web applications for online management of selected urban services. Notably, the software designs are based on the prevailing technical and socioeconomic conditions in the case study area (Akwa Ibom State Nigeria). 1. INTRODUCTION Nowadays, the advancement and convergence of spatial data capturing technologies such as satellite remote sensing technology and free web-based mapping technologies and services have given rise to the wide-spread application of Spatial Information System (SIS). SIS is a family of information system that is designed specifically to manage the collection, manipulation and visualization geographically referenced data [1-4]. Notably, SIS is now used in many fields such as environmental control, tourism, resource management, marine resource planning, scientific paper and urban management [5-9]. In this paper, SIS is developed for selected urban management services. Urban management refers to policies, plans, programs and practice put in place to build fair, governable and sustainable city [10-12]. Urban management services make urban cities conducive for the inhabitants and easy to implement development projects [13-15]. Planning is a core part of urban management that consists of the following processes: information gathering and analysis; development of a logical alternative course of action that is consistent with the goal of the region in view; and recommendation of a course of action. Information collection, management and analysis of past trends and present issues are pre-requisite of good urban planning and management [16-18]. In this paper, a facilitated participatory spatial information system for selected urban management service is proposed. In this context, spatial information system is defined as a web-based platform that Review of Computer Engineering Research 2018 Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 31-48 ISSN(e): 2410-9142 ISSN(p): 2412-4281 DOI: 10.18488/journal.76.2018.52.31.48 © 2018 Conscientia Beam. All Rights Reserved.