Title :
One world under a groove-handling Internet mapping as music
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. & Inf. Syst., Kingston Univ., UK
Abstract :
A computer science research outcome from theoretical work on public transport information systems has led to the discovery of a novel technique for the handling of spatial co-ordinate data over the Internet. The approach handles many standard geographic systems functions such as mapping, routing and spatial searches but replaces the GIS server application with small “one-hit” CGI programs or scripts acting on pre-processed cartographic data. The techniques used have much in common with the recording and playing back of music, in that a very large data set can be serialised. Just as you cannot hear the whole of a piece of music at once, you cannot be everywhere at once. The detailed object model of CgiMapScript is the subject of a paper in preparation. This is essentially a philosophical paper in which the core logic is fully explicated in argument
Keywords :
Internet; cartography; geographic information systems; philosophical aspects; traffic information systems; transportation; CGI programs; CgiMapScript; GIS server application; Internet mapping; computer science research outcome; music; object model; philosophical issues; pre-processed cartographic data; public transport information systems; spatial co-ordinate data; spatial searches; standard geographic systems functions; very large data set; Computational Intelligence Society; Engine cylinders; Geographic Information Systems; Information systems; Internet; Logic; Management information systems; Military computing; Multiple signal classification; Web server;
Conference_Titel :
Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2000. Proceedings. 11th International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0680-1
DOI :
10.1109/DEXA.2000.875073