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Article: The door opens for open-source GIS. (GIS Development).
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- GEO World
- Article date:
- June 1, 2003
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OPEN STANDARDS AND OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE are building blocks for an emerging generation of analytically powerful, Web-delivered spatial information solutions. All the software components required to build and deliver full-featured geoprocessing applications to Internet/intranet-based user communities are freely available to everyone with an Internet connection and the inclination to do real GIS on the Web.
The components for constructing Web GIS include a powerful operating system; several Web serving technologies; a Web-accessible, spatially enabled database; Web map servers capable of rendering Web maps from a growing range of data sources; spatial data formats ...