Representation and display of geospatial information: a comparison of ArcXML and SVG

Author

Baru, Chaitan ; Behere, Amit ; Cowart, Charles

Author_Institution

San Diego Supercomput. Center, La Jolla, CA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

3-6 Dec 2001

Firstpage

48

Abstract

The move to Web-based geographic information systems (GIS) has led to the creation of XML languages for representing geospatial information and publishing map services. One such language, developed by the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), is ArcXML. ArcXML provides a range of functionality, including representation of geospatial information and presentation of map information. We compare the spatial representation and presentation capabilities of ArcXML with those of the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) standard, which is an XML-based standard for 2D graphics. Our objective is to study the differences in representation and display capabilities of GIS versus non-GIS XML languages

Keywords

Internet; cartography; computer graphics; geographic information systems; hypermedia markup languages; information resources; 2D graphics; ArcXML; Environmental Systems Research Institute; SVG; Scalable Vector Graphics; Web-based geographic information systems; XML; geospatial information display; map services; spatial representation; Computational Intelligence Society; Connectors; Displays; Fusion power generation; Geographic Information Systems; Graphics; HTML; Markup languages; Publishing; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Information Systems Engineering, 2001. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kyoto

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1393-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WISE.2001.996703

Filename

996703