Developing a Novel Approach of Data Storage and Retrieval for Online Multimedia GIS Applications using Multimedia in GIS Approach

This research was aimed at mmbreaking the jinx of non-availability of suitable database for multimedia GIS especially the GIS in multimedia mode. An overview of existing database systems is given. The multimedia data collected included the audio, image, text and video. The audio, image and text after processing were first stored in Cyberlink software, then in online software called tunestotube and finally in YouTube. The video was uploaded directly to YouTube after rigorous processing. The online Relational – Hypermedia database was then created through integration of Codd and Nelsons' models and named as University of Nigeria Relational – Hypermedia database. This database owing to its nature was termed ‘super variant' of the database systems developed through this research. The database is highly responsive and amenable to queries. To every query raised, it gave a corresponding answer