Research Information System
XXIst ISPRS Congress. Beijing, 2008, Beijing, China, 03 July 2008 - 11 July 2018, pp.625-630
ABSTRACT:
Geographic Information System (GIS) has long been essential tool for governments, environmental institutions, military and others
who depend on geographic information. GIS combines layers of data about a location to create a fuller and more accurate picture of
that location. These data are obtained from different sources in different formats, datum and coordinate systems. The problem of
traditional GIS is to gather all up-to-date data and to process them in the same format and datum. The Internet has changed rapidly
the transfer and dissemination of geographical information. This rapid and enormous development of the Internet technology
resulted in usage of the Internet as a tool for data access, data transmission and access to GIS analysis tools. The combination of GIS
and the Internet offers great possibilities, such as the interactive access to geospatial data, enhancement of the functions of
geographic information, and the access to GIS analysis tools. As a result of advancements in both technologies, Web services come
into view based on Service Oriented Architecture. Web services let applications share data and even use other applications’
capabilities, without regard to what operating system or platform those applications run on.