Development and implementation of SOA based SDI model for tourism information infrastructure management web services
Rabindra Kumar Barik, Pratyush Kumar Das, Rakesh Kumar Lenka · 2016
Tourism is one of the prime areas for the economic growth rate of any country, particularly developed countries. Hence, there is an essential need to make efforts to disseminate information about the platform of tourism information details in a simplest way but in detailed manner by integrating modern technologies such as spatial technologies and web technology. Further, for the globalization in tourism sector, it is required easy to use the spatial information for the attraction of Foreign Tourist Arrivals (FTAs) and Foreign Exchange Earnings (FEEs) across the world. Therefore, it is the need to establish a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Model where each stakeholder can access, use and exchange spatial information in tourism sector. In the present work, it represents the development and implementation of an efficient and interoperable Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based SDI Model for geospatial web services in tourism sector. The developed SDI Model allows the publishing of web service descriptions as well as to submit requests to discover the web service of user's interests. The Model supports the integration of various geospatial web services i.e. Web Features Service (WFS), Web Catalogue Service (CS-W), Web Map Service (WMS) and Web Coverage Service (WCS) in distributed platform. The open source GIS (OSGIS) software has been used for development and implementation of SOA based SDI Model. For creation and storing of spatial and non-spatial tourism database, it has been used Quantum GIS, Map Window GIS and PostGIS. It includes PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, GeoNetwork, GeoServer and Apache Tomcat for dynamic server side scripting and imparting geospatial web services for sharing and exchange of geospatial data. The temple city, Bhubaneswar, India has been taken as the test case for Tourism Information Infrastructure Management in India.