[GSDI Technical] Towards an open architecture for vector GIS

[michael gould]

Hmm, yes. I suppose that Ron Lake and a few other OGC members might have
interesting comments on this. The authors seem not to realize the importance
of the fact that SVG is rendering-oriented. (Same might be said of KML
today
)

 

We realized this (shortcoming) also too late, after having published on the
wonders of SVG, 7 years ago.

 

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Subject: [GSDI Technical] Towards an open architecture for vector GIS

 

Computers & Geosciences 
Volume 32, Issue 10, December 2006, Pages 1720-1732 
Towards an open architecture for vector GIS 

Robert I. Dunfeya, Bruce M. Gittings, and James K. Batchellera,  

Abstract
A range of open source software tools are now available to the Geographical
Information Systems (GIS) analyst. However these tools are not necessarily
interoperable and rarely significantly interoperable with proprietary
systems. The open architectures, which have been developed for web-oriented
systems, together with those proposed by the Open Geospatial Consortium
(OGC), suggest that an open GIS architecture could be developed as an
alternative to proprietary systems. The architecture would use open source
components to store, translate, analyse, render and visualise GI data and
would escape many of the problems of monolithic systems. Particularly what
is proposed permits the loose coupling of any number of components and data
stores in a manner that is both open and flexible. This paper proposes such
an architecture and focuses on determining the suitability of Scalable
Vector Graphics (SVG), an open vector-oriented eXtensible Markup Language
(XML) grammar, as a significant component of such architecture. SVG is shown
as an effective means of rendering GI data, not least because of its
compatibility with the WC3 Document Object Model (DOM), permitting
GIS-specific client tools to be written and transmitted to the web browser
along with the SVG pages. While realising that the technology is in its
infancy, the conclusion reached is that SVG currently provides a powerful
solution and has enormous future potential. 

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/398/description
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