Patent ID: 8838631

Claim:
A facility management system using a geographic information system, comprising: a facility GIS database configured with electronic map data for displaying a general map, and facility management GIS data containing data for identifying a location and a form of a facility located on a railway or a road on the general map; a facility register database configured to manage records for each of a plurality of rails or roads, each record comprising a name of the rail or a road where the facility is located, a kilometer post representing a distance from a reference point specifically associated with that particular rail or road and located on the rail or the road where the facility is located, and attribute information of the facility other than the kilometer post and the name of the rail or the road; an attribute search section configured to, when searching for the attribute information of the facility from the facility register database, search for attribute information of a search target facility from the facility register database by using kilometer post information assigned in advance to the search target facility; and a kilometer post information management section configured to manage records comprising the name of the rail or the road where the facility is located, the kilometer post on the rail or the road where the facility is located, and coordinate data of the facility on the general map, wherein, when searching for the attribute information of the facility from the facility register database, the attribute search section is configured to refer to the kilometer post information management section to obtain kilometer post information corresponding to the facility based on the coordinate data of the facility, and search for the attribute information of the facility from the facility register database by using the kilometer post information.