Development of a methodology for evaluating the quality in use of WebGIS applications

This research aims to gain insight into evaluation methodology and to contribute to a higher standard of Web-based GIS applications evaluation in practice. We explored existing usability standards and published usability models to determining an appropriate model for evaluating the usability of WebGIS. The main goal of this study is to propose a comprehensive methodology for usability evaluation and identify the most serious usability problems of special purpose Web-based geographic information system. The proposed methodology should lead to decreasing time necessary for evaluation of applications and results processing.