Abstract
 Increasing Interoperability and Reducing Geospatial Application Development Effort at NBII Track: System Implementation for GIS Author(s): Onkar Chandel NBII works through a distributed network of NBII nodes and NBII partners. Since the technical skills and funding vary across this limited interoperability network, NBII has focused on the development of services and toolkits under NBII's SOA based Geospatial Interoperability Framework. These toolkits and services improve interoperability, significantly reduce geospatial application development effort, and help integrating legacy non-geospatial databases and existing ArcIMS-based applications. NBII services such as the Catalog service, the Gazetteer service, and the bounding box service, can be used by any application without the overhead of hosting and maintaining the data and the code. The NBII network is currently serving around 300 map services with approximately 20,000 data layers. These layers can be discovered through Catalog service and consumed in any ArcIMS, portal, or Web application. NBII toolkits can be plugged into any ArcIMS, portal, or Web application for consuming NBII services or extending legacy geospatial applications. Onkar Chandel United States Geological Survey 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr MS302 Reston , VA 20192 US Phone: 7036484185 E-mail: onkarc@gmail.com |
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