Interoperable and Distributed Geographical Information Systems Based on Web Service
Wu Lun · Geography and Geo-Information Science · 2003
As a new distributed object technology, web service specifies a technical framework that allows applications of using different protocols to communicate, transfer information and interoperate. Thus, web service enable an interoperable platform for Geographical Information Systems (GIS). In this paper, the authors introduce a web-service-based Distributed GIS, put forward its architecture, and set forth its key techniques such as the XML expression of geographical objects in web service, the description, register, find and bind of web service and how to integrate existing GIS system.