Publication of geodetic documentation center resources on internet

Abstract

Geodetic Documentation Centers collect geodetic and cartographic resources. The resources include spatial data and their metadata. European Union INSPIRE directive imposes an obligation on GDC to publish selected data in the Internet. In this paper, an adequate form of publication is discussed on the base of iGeoMap application. The Internet application iGeoMap merges data from various resources. Depending on the data to present, different types of resources are used. The application can publish spatial data from files (text or binary), a database specialized in spatial data service (PostgreSQL, ORACLE), or web services (Web Map Service, Web Feature Service). Utilization of various data sources by the application is presented in this paper. As a part of the subject, searches of the most popular data (parcels, address points, and control points) are discussed. Various data sources and searching mechanisms involved by the searches in iGeoMap are presented in use cases. © 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.