The Development Of Web-based Geographic Information Processing Software
Price
Free (open access)
Volume
21
Pages
9
Published
1998
Size
1,071 kb
Paper DOI
10.2495/GIS980321
Copyright
WIT Press
Author(s)
K.S. Kim, M.S. Kim, K.W. Lee & J.H. Lee
Abstract
Recently, Web-based Geographic Information Systems (CIS) with the rapid expansion of Internet and World Wide Web (WWW) is regarded as one of important issues for web application, and several GIS products running on web browser have been announced. However, most of these products have excluded spatial analysis functions to be one of the most important core parts of GIS's utilization, and offered SQL-based spatial data searching and the followed mapping on Web browser. Web-based GIS to be developed in this research provides spatial analysis functions as well as mapping and data searching, and can handle geographical features as geometric objects with associated topological relations and cl
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