Posted by Ajay
Lately I have been instrumental in converting our GIS web based functionality into more modularized service based functionality. A year back, our application had a very tightly coupled custom built WMS/WFS server. Imagine being constrained to only using the client that our web application provided, imagine a rogue application that did not follow the WMS/WFS specification, thats what we had - a tightly coupled rogue. This was fine as long as we serviced just one client. But we could not hope to market our product unless we could shift to a more service oriented framework, or atleast a more modular one.
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Tags: gis, java, jersey, REST
Posted by Ajay
Ok, so we spent the last two posts talking about geoserver, why we chose it, and some general information about geoserver and it’s architecture. Now let me talk about the geoserverizing of our mapping service.
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Tags: geoserver, geotools, wfs, wms
Posted by Ajay
The History behind it
Let me first tell you a story. In a place far far away, couple of million minutes ago, in the year AD 2001, a great entity , well a startup agency actually, called TOPP was looking into designing tools to make democracy and government more transparent, and with a flash came … .Geo server.
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Tags: geoserver, gis
Posted by Ajay
The why’s and the wherefores!!
Over the past few weeks I have been working on moving our GIS mapping solution into geoserver, a popular open source WMS/AFS server. We have been using a custom built WMS/WFS server that grossly neglected everything that the WMS specs talks about. I mean, I’m talking willfull disobedience of everything the WMS spec was talking about. It was so tightly coupled with our application that when circumstance arose for us to use the same server for another application, we just fell flat on our face. That prompted us (of course with a little monetary support from our customer) to decide to shift to geoserver, which was a major re-architecture of the way we were doing GIS.
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Tags: geoserver gis
Posted by Ajay
Eeny meeny miny moose…which mapping API do i choose??
I have been working for quite some time on a Proof of Concept for our GIS web mapping application. Currently our system has a basemap that has been superbly crafted by a good group of GIS engineers, we even have maps that are hill shaded, sounds cool dont it? Trust me it’s cooler than it sounds. Plus we render it using our custom WMS/WFS server with a Mapbuilder / OpenLayers client.
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Tags: google, mapping, openlayers, openstreetmap, virtual earth, yahoo