Web cartography with open standards – A solution to cartographic challenges of environmental management

Enescu, Ionuţ Iosifescu; Hugentobler, Marco; Hurni, Lorenz

doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2009.10.017

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“…Over recent years, different systems have been developed with the aim of providing support to policy makers in the field of agricultural development (Van Delden et al 2010). The visualization of spatial information in the form of maps is critical to facilitating decision-making in environmental management (Iosifescu-Enescu et al 2010). The visualization of spatial information in the form of maps is critical to facilitating decision-making in environmental management (Iosifescu-Enescu et al 2010).…”

Section: Application Of New Technologies On Historical Maps For the Amentioning

confidence: 99%

The Sustainability of Agro-Food and Natural Resource Systems in the Mediterranean Basin

Vastola¹

2015

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Section: Application Of New Technologies On Historical Maps For the Amentioning

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The Sustainability of Agro-Food and Natural Resource Systems in the Mediterranean Basin

Vastola¹

2015

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“…The OGC Web Map Service (WMS) standard (De la Beaujardiere, 2006) is currently the only widely accepted open standard for map visualization which standardizes the way for Web clients to request maps with predefined symbolization (Iosifescu-Enescu, Hugentobler & Hurni, 2010). This ability, as illustrated with Fig.…”

Section: Open Standards For Sharing Cartographymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As pointed out by Iosifescu-Enescu, Hugentobler & Hurni (2010), "the use of standardized exchange languages is commonly considered as the most practical solution for interoperability especially when it is required to collate resources, like data, from various systems," but also when it is to take the control of a distributed cartographic rendering process. Definitely, starting from level 2, the definition of a standardized styling language is essential to share cartography: that is the underlying cartographic instruction, what we call the symbology code which constitutes a style that describes how a map is authored.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…While the above arguments do show how it is essential to have a common styling language (currently in the name of OGC SE 1.1), this importance is accentuated by the fact that many changes and proposals have been received by the standard working group (SWG), in particular from the scientific community (Duarte Teixeira, De Melo Cuba & Mizuta Weiss, 2005;Cooper, Sykora & Hurni, 2005;Sykora et al, 2007;Dietze & Zipf, 2007;Sae-Tang & Ertz, 2007;Mays, 2012;Iosifescu-Enescu, Hugentobler & Hurni, 2010;Bocher et al, 2011;Rita, Borbinha & Martins, 2012;Bocher & Ertz, 2015). All these works share a common claim about enhancing SE.…”

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A redesign of OGC Symbology Encoding standard for sharing cartography

Bocher

Ertz

2018

PeerJ Computer Science

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Despite most Spatial Data Infrastructures offering service-based visualization of geospatial data, requirements are often at a very basic level leading to poor quality of maps. This is a general observation for any geospatial architecture as soon as open standards as those of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) are applied. To improve the situation, this paper does focus on improvements at the portrayal interoperability side by considering standardization aspects. We propose two major redesign recommendations. First to consolidate the cartographic theory at the core of the OGC Symbology Encoding standard. Secondly to build the standard in a modular way so as to be ready to be extended with upcoming future cartographic requirements. Thus, we start by defining portrayal interoperability by means of typical-use cases that frame the concept of sharing cartography. Then we bring to light the strengths and limits of the relevant open standards to consider in this context. Finally we propose a set of recommendations to overcome the limits so as to make these use cases a true reality. Even if the definition of a cartographic-oriented standard is not able to act as a complete cartographic design framework by itself, we argue that pushing forward the standardization work dedicated to cartography is a way to share and disseminate good practices and finally to improve the quality of the visualizations.

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“…This system is the unique solution of a complex expert system in thematic cartography. Special distributed solution was developed in Switzerland [Iosifescu-Enescu, Hugentobler, Hurni, 2010]. QGIS mapserver is an open source WMS (Web Map Service) (1.3.0 and 1.1.1) implementation.…”

Section: Cartographic Intelligent Systems With a Specific Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

Intelligent Systems in Cartography

Dobešová¹,

Brus²

2012

Intelligent Systems

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Web cartography with open standards – A solution to cartographic challenges of environmental management

Cited by 33 publications

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The Sustainability of Agro-Food and Natural Resource Systems in the Mediterranean Basin

The Sustainability of Agro-Food and Natural Resource Systems in the Mediterranean Basin

A redesign of OGC Symbology Encoding standard for sharing cartography

Intelligent Systems in Cartography

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