A WFS-based mediation system for GIS interoperability

Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 23-28

  Boucelma, Omar ^a   Essid, Mehdi ^a   Lacroix, Zoé ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIV   (France)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic Information Systems (GIS); Geography Markup Language (GML); Mediation; Web Feature Server (WFS); XML

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTEROPERABILITY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

WEB-BASED COMMUNITY;

SERVERS;

EID: 0037967856     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/585147.585153     Document Type: Conference Paper

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