Open Source Based Web-GIS Technology for Voter ID Verification: A Case Study of K.K.Nagar, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India - Tapa blanda

Open source is an approach to design, development, and distribution offering practical accessibility to a product's source (goods and knowledge). A Geographic Information System is a system for management, analysis, and display of geographic knowledge, which is represented using a series of information sets such as maps, geographic data sets, processing and work flow models, data models, and metadata. Electoral GIS is an important information system to find out the voters list with their residential map and their addresses to check the correct address with their location. In present time, open source initiative has gained momentum and projects are being developed using open source products. Hence, an attempt is made to develop a GIS based application tool for Voter ID address verification with their residential maps. With the help of this application, people and officials can verify the address and solve the address mismatches.

The author holds M.Sc., M.Tech., degree and she is a young research scholar in the Department of Geography, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli,Tamil Nadu,India. Her Ph.D. work entitled "Landuse Planning for Suruli Ar Watershed Development, Tamil Nadu, India using Geospatial Techonology". She has presented and published more number of papers.