Moebius: An interface to web map services

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 sear...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: David Procházka, Jana Procházková
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Czech Technical University in Prague 2009-04-01
Series:Geoinformatics FCE CTU
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Online Access:https://ojs.cvut.cz/ojs/index.php/gi/article/view/2732
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1802-2669