AN EMBEDDED GOOGLE EARTH/MAPS APPLICATION ON REAL ESTATE DATABASE INQUIRY AND DISPLAY

摘要

Most of the real estate brokerage sites are aware of utilizes Internet as form of media for publicity however; the contents are limited to specific property itself and the functions of query are mostly just provided searching by condition. This paper proposes a query interface on website which gives function of query by condition and query by zone. The zones were generated by performing an overlay analysis over many of raster layers, for instance, the price, proximity to the park, and to the market, etc. The approach of overlay analysis is developing an user-friendly interface with ESRI ArcObject in Visual Basic, especially for non-GIS users. The inquiry results can be shown on the web page which Google Earth COM API and Google Maps API embedded in it. Therefore, the website shows the query results in a webpage with two-dimensional of Google Maps and three-dimensional of Google Earth styles. In addition, the display of inquiry results will give the multimedia present way which includes the Virtual Reality scene of house, panorama of interior of building and so on.