Abstracts
Theobjectives of this researchis to survey and collect the data for Pak Phraek Community historical sites and to create the historical maps of Pak Phraek Community, Kanchanaburi Province. The population and key informants included; villagers, philosopher of the Pak Phraek Community, 3 historical scholars, and the government agencies.There are four steps of data collection which are; Community Coordination, Observation and Survey, Interviews and Lesson Learned. This research used thegeo-informatics concept, Participatory Geographic Information System concept (PGIS), and the walking map conceptas the main concepts for this study. The research results are as follows:
1) the surveyed data for the historical map making of Pak Phraek Community has concluded two issues as follows; the first issue, Pak Phraek community economy map, from the walking map to the completed map and importing into the geographic information system (GIS), found that there were 97 stores with 22 types of shops. The second issue, the map of Pak Phraek community historical houses/sites from the walking map surveying, to the complete map and imported into the geographic information system (GIS), found that there are 40 learning resources. 2) The historical map making of Pak Phraek Community implemented the geographic information system in the production and development of the Pak Phraek Community map which included; field work, data input, data edit, data management, data manipulation, data analysis anddata display. In this way, the Participatory Geographic Information System (PGIS) concept has been adopted to be one of the work processes by free program software, for mapping. The results show that the information obtained from the PGIS process, the community and researchers were able to create a new map obtained from real/living information and to create community ownership of the data.
Keywords: Walking
Map, Geographic
Information System, Historical mapofPak Phraek community, Kanchanaburi
Introduction
The policy of
Thailand 4.0 encourages research that incorporates science, technology, and
innovation. This research located a community that has the potential and
readiness to conduct a science, technology and innovative research to help
develop the community into a sustainable community by adopting to a Smart City
concept. The Pak Phraek Community,
is located in the urban area of Kanchanaburi. The Pak Phraek community is a commercial
districtas well as a tourist attraction and learning center for Thai ancient
history and architecture located on Pak Phraek Road, the area that intersects between Wat Nue (Devasangkharam Temple) and Wat Tai (Chaichumphon Chanasongkhram Temple). Pak Phraek Community is a multi-cultural
community containing religious learning resources, ancient architecture and
historical learning resources, as well as a tourism learning resources. The
community is supported as a tourist community by Kanchanaburi Province. ((Department
of Tourism and Sports of Kanchanaburi,
2016). ). Based on
researched data, Pak Phraek Community has sufficient potential to develop into a
Smart Community.Pak Phraek community was founded since
the reign of King Rama III and has a history related to the early Rattanakosin
period; it was the location to build a new city to
replace the old town of Kanchanaburi during the reign of King Rama III. During
World War IIthe area was the operation
center for Japanese soldiers and prisoners of war.
The Smart Community Concept
is a presentation
of digital economy and social drive by applying the digital
technology to effectively develop the community.
However, the important topic for community development should be to understand the problems and needs of people in the community and to ensure
a participatory design that is most suitable for the properties of that
community to provide people with a better quality of life and sustainable
growth. ((Ministry
of Digital Economy and Society, 2016)).
The research was conducted to develop the community’s tourism by creating an
innovative map using
Geographic Information Systems: GIS, which is an innovation that can be used to
develop communities. The innovative maps can develop the community tourism through surveying
and developing a historical map to offer information about the history of Pak
Phraek Community and as a guide to the historical attractions of the community.
As an introduction, the researcher
became interested in the research and development of the Integration of
Anthropological Surveying tools, Walking Maps with the Geographic Information
System to develop the Historical Map of Pak Phraek Community, Kanchanaburi in order to survey data
for the historical map of Pak Phraek Community, Mueang Kanchanaburi District,
Kanchanaburi to be a Smart Community Map (Smart Map) that can be used as a tool
in the area of community development and tourism management. The two research questions proposed are: 1) What does it look like? and 2) how does it look as a tool to aid
the development of the Pak Phraek
community to be ready and develop as a Smart Community model in Kanchanaburi?