Applicability of open-source web mapping libraries for building massive Web GIS clients

The goal of this work is to study the use of WEB GIS open source solution for workflow organizing of urban planning documentation: zoning permit, building permit, occupancy permit, utilities connection. A web GIS solution Giscuit.Com developed by a moldavian company VEC.MD was used as a framework for implementation of test version of a specialized website Primaria.Giscuit.Com. Giscuit is a cost-effective web mapping platform built on powerful, cutting-edge, open source geospatial components. The goal is to make it as easy as possible to build more secure, reliable and modern web GIS applications. With Giscuit users stay in control of their content through centralized management of vector and raster spatial data. Giscuit allows users to visualize, share, edit and analyze geospatial data. It has powerful web-based administrator panel with features like data import, layer styling, user management, permissions management, publishing data and more. It is compliant with the Open Geospatial Consortium standards, this is achieved through OpenLayers or PHP MapScript supporting several OGC standards like WMS, WFS, WMC etc. Giscuit provides a scalable GIS server platform that can be deployed on a single Linux or Microsoft Windows machine, it can be distributed across multiple servers or deployed on cloud infrastructure.

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THE ROLE OF OPEN-SOURCE PYTHON PACKAGE GEOSERVER-REST IN WEB-GIS DEVELOPMENT

ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ◽

10.5194/isprs-archives-xlvi-4-w2-2021-91-2021 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol XLVI-4/W2-2021 ◽

pp. 91-96

Author(s):

T. B. Kshetri ◽

A. Chaksan ◽

S. Sharma

Keyword(s):

Open Source ◽

Geospatial Data ◽

Web Gis ◽

Style File ◽

Web Mapping ◽

Python Package ◽

The Web ◽

Gis Platform

Abstract. This work describes geoserver-rest, an open-source python package that can manage the geospatial data in a geoserver which is helpful for uploading, editing, and deleting the raster/vector layers from various sources. It is also useful for generating the style/legend from the uploaded geospatial data. Thus, generated legend can be used for visualization of maps in the web-GIS platform. The package is successfully used to build the web-GIS portal for agricultural datasets of Afghanistan, which has around 6000 map layers. The main benefit that geoserver-rest provides to this project is the ability to upload the data to the geoserver and create the styles file dynamically. Thus, created style file are directly linked to the corresponding layer and provide the Web Mapping Service (WMS) standard and visualize in an interactive way.

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An Interactive WebGIS Framework for Coastal Erosion Risk Management

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering ◽

10.3390/jmse9060567 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (6) ◽

pp. 567

Author(s):

Alessandra Capolupo ◽

Cristina Monterisi ◽

Alessandra Saponieri ◽

Fabio Addona ◽

Leonardo Damiani ◽

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Keyword(s):

Open Source ◽

3D Visualization ◽

Erosion Risk ◽

Innovative Strategies ◽

Web Mapping ◽

Natural Processes ◽

Multi Scale ◽

Interactive Interface ◽

Multi Temporal ◽

User Friendly

The Italian coastline stretches over about 8350 km, with 3600 km of beaches, representing a significant resource for the country. Natural processes and anthropic interventions keep threatening its morphology, moulding its shape and triggering soil erosion phenomena. Thus, many scholars have been focusing their work on investigating and monitoring shoreline instability. Outcomes of such activities can be largely widespread and shared with expert and non-expert users through Web mapping. This paper describes the performances of a WebGIS prototype designed to disseminate the results of the Italian project Innovative Strategies for the Monitoring and Analysis of Erosion Risk, known as the STIMARE project. While aiming to include the entire national coastline, three study areas along the regional coasts of Puglia and Emilia Romagna have already been implemented as pilot cases. This WebGIS was generated using Free and Open-Source Software for Geographic information systems (FOSS4G). The platform was designed by combining Apache http server, Geoserver, as open-source server and PostgreSQL (with PostGIS extension) as database. Pure javascript libraries OpenLayers and Cesium were implemented to obtain a hybrid 2D and 3D visualization. A user-friendly interactive interface was programmed to help users visualize and download geospatial data in several formats (pdf, kml and shp), in accordance with the European INSPIRE directives, satisfying both multi-temporal and multi-scale perspectives.

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Comment on "Learning risk management of geohazards in practice with free and open-source web-GIS based platform: RISKGIS"

10.5194/nhess-2017-85-rc1 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Anonymous

Keyword(s):

Risk Management ◽

Open Source ◽

Web Gis

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Application of Geospatial Mashups in Web GIS for Tourism Development

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-2255-3.ch297 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 3403-3418

Author(s):

Somnath Chaudhuri ◽

Nilanjan Ray

Keyword(s):

Spatial Data ◽

Rapid Development ◽

Tourism Development ◽

Web Gis ◽

Multiple Sources ◽

Web Mapping ◽

Tourism Management ◽

Mapping Technology ◽

Spatial Display

This paper examines current development in Web GIS with the implementation of Geospatial Mashup technologies, such as Google Map in the context of map Mashups, and presents a classification of map Mashups and their application in tourism management and promotion. On the Web GIS context, Mashup is the process of merging multiple sources of data, both spatial and non-spatial, into a single integrated spatial display. It is about extracting spatial data from a non-spatial source and combining with other spatial data and finally displaying it on a map. This paper demonstrates that Geospatial Mashup has great potential to facilitate and widen the rapid development of the future web mapping technology in Web GIS in tourism development. It also highlights on the basic architecture and working principles of Map Mashups in context to tourism management. The final section of this research paper emphasizes on some issues and limitations inherent to the current Mashup technologies like privacy protection, copyright issues etc. which need to be worked out before its wider adoption.

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