TOWARD PEER-TO-PEER DATA INTERCHANGE IN WEB-BASED GISs

Abstract

Development of the peer-to-peer interaction technologies is one of significant development planes of the information systems and World Wide Web. Particularly, such modern paradigms as Internet of Things and Fog Computing assume the need of direct interactions between client nodes on local or wide area networks as well as on the Web. However, peer-to-peer technologies are poorly studied and implemented in geospatial domain, despite obvious applicability in different thematic domains, for example to build monitoring grids. The paper observes issues of peer-to-peer architecture design for Web-based GISs and geospatial Web services, and our preliminary conclusions on application of contemporary technologies as a basis for peer-to-peer interchange of geospatial data on the Web.