functional and device interoperability in an architectural model of geographic information system
Providing communication in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is an instigating development challenge, due to the high complexity of these systems and to the difficulty of modeling them properly. This paper presents a model of an architecture to represent the structure of a GIS. The architecture is based on standard technologies, such as XML , XSLT and SVG . These technologies are used to represent GIS and to provide functional and device interoperability. Moreover, web services are used for exchanging information between systems used by different devices in different contexts. The proposed architecture is transparent to users and provides information adaptation to different devices using context information. The main contributions of the proposed architecture is the geographic representation using SVG, the functional and device interoperability and cartographic generalization.
interoperability web services multiple devices geographic data communication