Dubai E-Guide
Dubai Municipality has launched an e-guide for Dubai, which allows Internet users to locate places in the emirate through an Internet browser.
The launch of the new service, which is available at www.gis.gov.ae, comes as part of the e-government programme of the civic body.
Qassim Sultan, Director-General of Dubai Municipality, called the new e-venture a revolution in the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) sector s the service could be availed by all the local departments, government establishments, general public and tourists from any part of the world.
"This will help streamline procedures of a number of government departments with respect to the GIS," Mr. Sultan said, while addressing a Press Conference organized to announce the launch of the e-guide.
The Press Conference was also attended by Hussein Nasser Lootah, Assistant Director-General of the Municipality for Environment and Public Health Affairs and Head of the e-government committee at the civic body, and Mohammed Al Zafin, Director of the GIS Centre, Dubai e-guide is the first official site for locating activities, facilities and services in the emirate of Dubai including landmarks and historical sites.
It is of great help in locating government facilities and utilities with information including addresses and images of major landmarks. Locating places can be done in three ways: Guided Search (by selecting the name of the place), Address Search (by keying in the building number and road number or name in addition to community number or name) and Map Search (by defining an area and then searching within the specified distance).
The Dubai e-guide can also be used for printing maps and measuring distance between places. There is a zoom in and zoom out facility on the site for the maps.
