Yet, the general acceptance of the WWW for the distribution and display of information suggests that mechanisms for WWW delivery of GIS information will be of increasing importance. The system operates by periodically accessing distributed datasets of GIS information and creating a common repository of WWW accessible information on a gis2web server. In this way gis2web users are provided seamless access to different datasets which may be of quite different forms. This paper details the gis2web architecture and presents some of the implementation issues.
Information is stored in formats including tables, images, and text.
Typical GIS software maintains, manipulates, and displays this information in dynamic and graphical ways. The traditional mode of operation is to have the data accessible from within a specific GIS application on a single platform. Gis2web allows distributed GIS to dynamically update their databases and have this information available to the WWW through automatic retrieval by gis2web. Section 2 presents background information and related works. Section 3 discusses the design and architecture of gis2web.