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Geospatial Enterprise Suite
The Geospatial Enterprise Suite, the commercial bundle of tools and services resulting from this project, will build on the Geographic Data Server (GDS) developed last year under another GeoInnovations project. The Geospatial Enterprise Suite (GES) will supersede the GDS, improving its scalability (ability to produce information in different size ranges), its performance, and its ability to support other kinds and sources of data. The new suite will incorporate technical innovations that, among other things, reduce the memory consumed by its components and boost the speed of the software.
The Geospatial Enterprise Suite will come with a variety of reusable libraries, adapters and tools, which together form the "GES environment." The suite will include several web services (e.g., Web Feature Server and Web Map Server) endorsed by the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI). The new suite will support a number of useful features related to map styling and data filtering, as well as vector features, which can produce vector or image maps. The suite will also enable the CGDI to become an active geospatial infrastructure. As such, it will be capable of tracking and responding to changing situations and events, such as national disasters, pollution and disease outbreaks.
Together, the tools and services in this suite will create a platform, based on current standards, for users who want to build geospatial web services for the CGDI and elsewhere. This standards-based platform will benefit the CGDI as a whole. It will help the CGDI become a more standards-based infrastructure that can support services ranging from data access to distributed (or dispersed) updating and sharing of information that can be used to monitor and respond to events as they unfold.
Furthermore, the new suite will lower the cost of developing geospatial web services. This should make it attractive to government organizations, such as provincial forest ministries, and to private firms that want not only access to data, but also the ability to provide geospatial services for activities such as managing harvests, planning land use, and monitoring protected areas.
Primary Partner:
Galdos Systems Inc.
Vancouver,
British Columbia;
Funding From GeoConnections: $150,000.00 ( 41.0 %)
Estimated Inception Date: April, 2003
Estimated Completion Date: May, 2004
Deliverables from this project benefitted the following provinces: All provinces