ABSTRACT

The World Wide Web presents many new, exciting prospects for geographic information systems, but also numerous technical, practical and organizational challenges. Users no longer require specialized and expensive hardware, software and data, and they can access a GIS readily from almost anywhere, using off-the-shelf browser software.

An onli

chapter 1|12 pages

Perspectives on global data

1.1 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS

chapter 2|14 pages

GIS and the Internet

2.1 THE ADVANTAGES OF ONLINE GIS

chapter 3|22 pages

Server-side GIS operations

3.1 WEB SERVERS

chapter 4|22 pages

Client-side GIS operations

4.1 INTRODUCTION

chapter 5|20 pages

Introduction to Markup

5.1 MARKUP LANGUAGES

chapter 6|18 pages

Information networks

chapter 7|24 pages

Distributed objects and OpenGIS

7.1 INTRODUCTION

chapter 8|18 pages

Metadata on the Web

8.1 INTRODUCTION

chapter 9|16 pages

Metadata standards

chapter 10|22 pages

Data warehouses

10.1 WHAT IS A DATA WAREHOUSE?

chapter 11|14 pages

New technologies for spatial information