
doi: 10.1007/11428862_71
A practical component-based WebGIS named as Geo-Union is presented. Geo-Union consists of four layers: storage layer, service layer, component layer and application layer. Service layer can be partitioned into another two layers: client service layer and server service layer. The architectures and object constitutions of each layer in Geo-Union are discussed in details. The Web application model of Geo-Union is also presented. At last, some future works in WebGIS, such as interoperability, security, distributed computing and intelligent computing, are indicated and simply explored.
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