Professional paper

Evolution of Web Geoinformation Systems

Željko Vujaklija ; Institute of Geodesy Rijeka Ltd., Rijeka, Croatia

Abstract

The paper brings the definition of webGIS technology and its advantages and disadvantages. There are different webGIS architectures described with the review of each of them. The paper describes in details the operation of server and clients in webGIS architecture. There are also the data formats described that are used in webGIS, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of each format. At the end there is a description of current situation in webGIS given, i.e. there are the most important representatives of web cartography described that make today the largest part of web cartographic applications.

Keywords

webGIS; IMS; Google Maps; AJAX

Hrčak ID:

62898

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/62898

Publication date:

14.9.2010.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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