THE APPLICATION OF GIS TO THE SCHOOL MAPPING IN BANGKOK
YokoMakino*
Seisuke Watanabe**
*Project researcher, Asian Center for Research on
Remote Sensing (ACRoRS),
AIT, Pathumthani 12120,Tel:(66)-2-524-6486
Fax:(66)-2-524-6147
Fax:(66)-2-524-6147
e-mail: yoko@ait.ac.th
THAILAND
**Associate Professor, Nagaoka Institute of Design
e-mail:swata@nagaoka-id.ac.jp
JAPAN
KEYWORDS: Bangkok, GIS, School Mapping, City Planning
ABSTRACT
In Bangkok, primary and junior high schools are under the jurisdiction of several ministries and Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA). Due to this complicated jurisdictional structure, school planning has never been implemented in cooperation with all the related agencies. School databases are scattered allover the agencies, and those are not integrated into digital format together, thus comprehensive school location analysis using GIS has never been carried out.
From 2002 September, the compulsory education will become nine years from the current six years. In accordance with this government policy, it is an urgent subject to construct school buildings in order to meet new students’ demand; however, the procedure of locating new schools is not smoothly and effectively executed because of the complex jurisdiction system.
This study collected the available non-spatial school related data from all the ministries and BMA, and developed database integrated into GIS data to analyze the current school distribution. From the findings of this study, the current haphazard school allocation could be interpreted easily by GIS analyses. The application of GIS to the school mapping is very useful to find the appropriate sites of locating new school buildings efficiently and rationally. is very useful to find the appropriate sites of locating new school buildings efficiently and rationally.
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