A GIS Web deployment for Blantyre Higher Education and Training Institutions data based on leaflet.js. It showcases available institutions in Blantyre together with their details.
Geographic information systems (GIS) are computer based systems which store, manipulate, analyses spatially linked data and displays summary information on a map. Such systems are composed of people, data, procedures and technology to support communication and decision making.
In Malawi, it is the current norm for students to pursue and attain an academic qualification higher than the regular Malawi School Certificate of education (MSCE). Students and parents look for information on available colleges together with relevant information on what they are offering that is: courses and approximate fees and possibly academic calendars. Unfortunately, such information is not readily available and acquisition of such information is expensive. Potential students together with their parents incur costs to travel around to acquire this information. This is more expensive since these students want to compare available options hence they have to make travelling’s to several institutions across the city. Furthermore, acquisition of information puts an extra overhead on time which would have been used for other productive work.
git clone https://github.com/Fraganya/bhei-gis
you can add extra data to the excel file in documentation and import it in QGIS as a database table.
Finally export the database table to well formated GeoJson and point to the file in your index.html page.
The web app requires a mapbox key , so you also need to sign up with mapbox and get a key to load OSM layers.
The map must be accessed by an HTTP prototocol that is you cannot access the index.html file directly as the AJAX loading of the data will not work.
Initially this was a class group assignment for BSC MIS 4 students :
- Francis Ganya
- Abigail Mwale
- Angella Kamera
- Before Ndakwera