Web Based Land Information System of Tuticorin(LIST), Tamilnadu, India.

The increasing popularity of the internet from online surfing to e-commerce to interactive chatting has made the internet an integralpart of our society. The nearly ubiquitous access to the internet and interactive content of the WorldWide Web(WWW) have made them a powerfulmeans for people to access, exchange and process information. Internet GIS is a research and application area that utilizes the internet andother internetworking systems to facilitate the access, processing and dissemination of geographic information and spatial analysis knowledge. This paper examine the Web based land information of system of Tuticorin (LIST) using the state of art Web GIS software ArcIMS. LIST isdesigned specifically to create, visualize, analyze report and publish land-based data such as Geology, Geomorphology, Soil, land use and landcover and Road network of Tuticorin. The land information should lead to better decisions about the use of land and better management of resources