Most of the world even today uses coal and petroleum as the main sources of energy. But over the last few decades, many alternative sources of energy have been discovered and their use is on the rise. A few of the alternative sources of energy include solar energy, nuclear energy, wind energy, tidal energy, bio fuels, natural gas and hydrogen. The motivation for this thesis is to make use of GIS software, as an innovative approach, to map a couple of these fuel resources worldwide. We will be focusing on nuclear and tidal energy in this case. Mapping of the nuclear energy facilities as well as the tidal energy generation facilities using the GIS tool, gives us a visual representation of how the energy production trends are changing. Learning about these changes in energy generation becomes very visual and interesting via images, fact sheets and videos. All efforts have been made to design this software in a way that it becomes easy to understand and learn. We are mapping geographic locations for these fuel resources and production facilities as a layer on the world map. According to the requirement, the layer created was a point layer or polygon layer or a line layer. This software can be customized according to the user's requirement and is easy to install and create using GIS technologies like Map Objects, Java Edition and JAVA along with the Eclipse IDE Visual communication is one of the best forms of communication because it's easy to understand, simple and saves time. It's being used more often in schools for teaching purposes and it's our goal that our software serves the same purpose.
