Integration of GIS Web Services

Automated Discovery, Binding, and Integration Of GIS Web Services

Geographic Data Integration to Support Web GIS

Although research in data integration has become one of the main issues in [6], geographic data integration is still a laborious and complicated problem, even for specialists. Geographic data is of great importance as it describes the surface of the Earth and its interactions with mankind. It has its own specific issues as it can be spatially indexed. Exchanging data in real-time through the in...

Peer-to-peer Based Gis Web Services

Geographic Information System (GIS) based on Internet is a promising research field, which brings new approaches to access, share and disseminate geographic information. However, current Internet-based GIS relies heavily on centralized server, which inevitably has drawbacks such as single points of failure and network congestion etc. In recent years, Peer-to-Peer (simply P2P) and Web services a...

The GIS Web Portal: Beyond Data Services

The GIS web portal usually functions as a web-based gateway to integrated and distributed geographic resources. Although current GIS web portals are gaining popularity among GIS users and are of great significance for building distributed Internet GIS, they remain weak in terms of analytical and modeling components. We discuss the possibilities of integrating state-of-the-art technologies which...

Data Integration using Web Services

In this paper we examine the opportunities for data integration in the context of the emerging Web Services systems development paradigm. The paper introduces the programming standards associated with Web Services and provides an example of how Web Services can be used to unlock heterogeneous business systems to extract and integrate business data. We provide an introduction to the problems and...