Moebius: An interface to web map services

Authors

  • David Procházka Dep. of Informatics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Mendel University in Brno
  • Jana Procházková Dep. of Mathematics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14311/gi.3.4

Keywords:

Indexing, Searching, Web Map Service

Abstract

Our article presents a concept of a geospatial search engine based on a Web Map Service (WMS) compliant virtual mapserver. This virtual mapserver is able to index mapservers based on the WMS standard and create an unified interface to all shared map layers. Our presented approach also allows to search the map layers within the virtual mapserver and process the results directly in GIS tools.

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Published

2008-04-12

Issue

Vol. 3 (2008)

Section

Articles

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