A review of WEB - based GIS for visualization of George Town, Penang sustainability as world heritage site

Integration of the Geographical Information System (GIS) technology and various applications are able to contribute towards reconstructing the dynamic of representation in GIS visualization. WEB-based GIS visualization users like architects, planners, landuse planners and urban designers are capable to visualize the effect of urban, proposed and zoning landuse. It´s also capable to predict the results of smart growth initiatives for sustainable development to be achieved. Therefore this paper will review and discuss on how the GIS and other combined techniques are potentially into modeling a WEB-based GIS visualization of the real heritage world. This paper will focus on the discussion in establishing the WEB-based GIS together with visualization towards sustainable development of George Town (not “Georgetown” as most people used and tend to spell it) as world heritage site while application from this WEB-based is capable to become a tool for sustainable development of George Town as world heritage site. It is expected that by using WEB-based GIS many users are capable to analyst the categories of heritage building in George Town, in terms of non - heritage building or heritage building and so on. Therefore it is believed that WEB-based GIS is capable to become efficient tools to be use in supporting the process of such as data sharing, decision making, manipulation of data information and map for George Town as the world heritage site.