Web-based GIS system : a case study from Slovenia

Stojanova, Daniela & Tom Levanic

Large amount of geographical data have been used more and more in many areas in different application domains, such as government, telecommunications, utilities, cadastre, land management, environment and ecology. Recently, the internet technology is moving Geographical Information Systems (GIS) towards Web based applications, providing more visual information for the end users and simplifying the interaction between users and GIS. We present a web based information system that has been developed by the Slovenian Forestry Institute in order to promote the hunting community in Slovenia. This information system facilitates the hunting in terms of providing online up-to-date information on various dispossessions of species on different locations. The information is made available at three different levels i.e. Country level, where the information are aggregated at national level; Hunting region level where the information is aggregated at district-wise; and at Hunting communities level where the information is aggregated village-wise. The application follows OpenGIS Standards compliant for Web Feature Service (WFS) and Web Map Service (WMS). The data is stored in a spatial database. The output formats includes tables, graphs and maps products (Google Earth, GEORSS, Shapefiles, raster image formats, pdf, etc.). All presented data are extensively equipped with their metadata description, so as to enable delivery of exact information to the end user. Technologies like HTML and JAVA scripts are made use of for designing the client end interfaces. The Web GIS based applications constitute the new paradigm of distributed applications, that combines the best aspects of the development of components and the development web using standard GIS protocols and data formats of generalized use to obtain multiplatform integration.

Event: International Conference on Spatial Data Infrastructure 2010

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