Design hierarchical component-based WebGIS

Abstract

A practical component-based WebGIS named as Geo-Union is presented. Geo-Union consists of four layers: storage layer, service layer, component layer and application layer. Service layer can be partitioned into another two layers: client service layer and server service layer. The architectures and object constitutions of each layer in Geo-Union are discussed in details. The Web application model of Geo-Union is also presented. At last, some future works in WebGIS, such as interoperability, security, distributed computing and intelligent computing, are indicated and simply explored. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.