1st Edition

Advances in Web-based GIS, Mapping Services and Applications

Edited By Songnian Li, Suzana Dragicevic, Bert Veenendaal Copyright 2011
    400 Pages
    by CRC Press

    402 Pages
    by CRC Press

    Advances in Web-based GIS, Mapping Services and Applications is published as part of ISPRS WG IV/5 effort, and aims at presenting (1) Recent technological advancements, e.g., new developments under Web 2.0, map mashups, neogeography and the like; (2) Balanced theoretical discussions and technical implementations; (3) Commentary on the current stages of development; and (4) Prediction of developments over the next decade. Containing 21 contributions from 60 researchers active within ISPRS communities, most of them from academia and some from governments, the book covers a wide range of topics related to the state-of-the-art in web mapping/GIS and geographic information services. The volume is organized in five sections:

    1. Analytical and Geospatial Services;

    2. Performance;

    3. Augmentation and LBS;

    4. Collaboration and Decision Making, and 5. Open Standards for Geospatial Services.

    Supported by a considerable number of technical details and examples, an overall view of the current achievements and progress made in the field of web-based GIS and mapping services is given. The chapters reflect timely and future developments addressing: constant updating of related web and geospatial technologies as well as the revolution of web mapping caused by mainstream IT vendors such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft; increased interest from industry on geo-spatial information technologies; and increasing demand from the general public for prompt and effective spatial information services. Advances in Web-based GIS, Mapping Services and Applications will appeal to academia and researchers, application specialists and developers, practitioners, and undergraduate and graduate students interested in distributed and web-based geoinformation systems and applications, geodatabases, and digital mapping.

    Preface
    Acknowledgements
    Contributors

    Introduction
    Advances, challenges and future directions in web-based GIS, mapping services and applications
    Songnian Li, Bert Veenendaal & Suzana Dragićević

    Analytical and geospatial services
    Geography 2.0—A mash-up perspective
    T. Edwin Chow

    GeoClustering: A web service for geospatial clustering
    Jing Wang, Xin Wang & Steve H.L. Liang

    Creating GIS simulation models on a TeraGrid-enabled geospatial web portal: A demonstration of geospatial cyberinfrastructure
    Ming Hsiang Tsou & Ick-Hoi Kim

    An OGC Web Processing Service for automated interpolation
    Jan Dürrfeld, Jochen Bisier & Edzer Pebesma

    GeoGlobe: A Virtual Globe for multi-source geospatial information integration and service
    Jianya Gong, Longgang Xiang, Jin Chen, Peng Yue & Yi Liu

    Building web services for public sector information and the geospatial web
    David Pullar, David Torpie & Tim Barker

    Performance
    WebGIS performance issues and solutions
    Chaowei Yang, Huayi Wu, Qunying Huang, Zhenlong Li, Jing Li, Wenwen Li, Lizhi Miao & Min Sun

    Data reduction techniques for web and mobile GIS
    Michela Bertolotto & Gavin McArdle

    A load balancing method to support spatial analysis in XML/GML/SVG-based WebGIS
    Haosheng Huang, Yan Li & Georg Gartner

    Augmentation and location-based services
    Geolocating for web based geospatial applications
    Bert Veenendaal, Jacob Delfos & Tele Tan

    The mobile web: Lessons from mobile augmented reality
    Sylvie Daniel & Robin M. Harrap

    A survey on augmented maps and environments: Approaches, interactions and applications
    Gerhard Schall, Johannes Schöning, Volker Paelke & Georg Gartner

    Collaboration and decision making
    Map-chatting within the geospatial web
    G. Brent Hall & Michael G. Leahy

    Jump-starting the next level of online geospatial collaboration: Lessons from AfricaMap
    Benjamin Lewis & Weihe Guan

    A geospatial Web application to map observations and opinions in environmental planning
    Claus Rinner, Jyothi Kumari & Sepehr Mavedati

    Web-based collaboration and decision making in GIS-built virtual environments
    Christian Stock, Ian D. Bishop, Haohui Chen, Marcos Nino-Ruiz & Peter Wang

    Development and challenges of using web-based GIS for health applications
    Sheng Gao, Darka Mioc, Xiaolun Yi, Harold Boley & François Anton

    Open standards for geospatial services

    OGC standards: Enabling the geospatial web
    Carl Reed

    Vector data formats in internet based geoservices
    Franz-Josef Behr, Kai Holschuh, Detlev Wagner & Rita Zlotnikova

    Geospatial catalogue web/grid service
    Aijun Chen & Liping Di

    Author index
    Keyword index
    ISPRS Book Series

    Biography

    Songnian Li is Associate Professor in Geomatics Engineering at the Ryerson University, Canada. He is the Chair of the ISPRS Working Group IV/5 on "Distributed, Web-based Geoinformation Services and Applications". His current research interests include web mapping and geospatial services, collaborative GIS systems and decision support, geospatial data acquisition, and spatiotemporal analysis applications.

    Suzana Dragicevic is Professor at Geography Department at Simon Fraser University, Canada. She is the Secretary of the ISPRS Working Group IV/5 on "Distributed, Web-based Geoinformation Services and Applications". Her primary research interests include geographic information systems (GIS) and science, spatial data analysis and modelling, complex systems, fuzzy sets and systems, temporal GIS, web-based and collaborative GIS.

    Bert Veenendaal is Professor in Geographic Information Science and Head of Department of Spatial Sciences at Curtin University of Technology, Australia. He is a co-chair of the ISPRS Working Group IV/5 on "Distributed, Web-based Geoinformation Services and Applications". His current research interests include geographic information science, geospatial analysis and data handling, geospatial web mapping and services, collaborative GIS and virtual/interactive e-learning.

    "Today, keeping up on the latest in thought and innovation concerning the map and its use is an exhaustive exercise with dazzling changes in buzzwords, acronyms and players. This is why a publication summarizing where things are at concerning the relationship between the map and the Web, produced by the key players in the field, is so welcome. Congratulations to Drs. Li, Dragićević and Veenendaal for publishing this collection of 21 chapters by 64 authors from 11 different nations. The book does a good job capturing a snapshot of thought and practice about the map and the Web at the end of the first decade of the new millennium. It is a welcome reference and an invaluable resource for educators, researchers and practitioners."
    —Peter Keller, Geomatica, Vol. 65, No. 4, 2011