ABSTRACT In Ecuador, during the last years specially, the use of the Geographic Information Systems and the Internet cartography publication (Web Mapping) have been considerably increasing, although in many cities their advantages or benefits are either unknown or not fully exploited, so these facts have lead to the creation of an interactive map of Quevedo city. The developed software consists on a Web site that allows us to visualize a Quevevo map with its basic information: political-administrative divisions, streets maps, buses routes and public interest places (lodging, banks, educational institutions, etc.). The software also features the possibility to make searches of specific places, street intersections, the shortest routes (both pedestrian and vehicular) between 2 points, using for this the Dijkstra algorithm, which was determined to be the most useful for the employed network. It’s important to remark that the application has been improved by the use of Open Source tools. All the acquired information has been integrated into a spatial database, which was designed to include in the future more features such as faster routes and service areas, and also to become a data source for other works.
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