Bluewater Geospatial

Data Dissemination

With the faithful evolution of applications away from the desktop and onto the internet, the need for web-based data distribution mechanisms has become paramount. Web-enabled mobile devices such as the iPhone and the PSP are proving everyday the public's need for timely, remotely-served data.

Data Dissemination Experience:

Geospatial Onestop-compliant GIS data clearinghouses and portal creation
Service oriented GIS data dissemination including WFS and WMS services
Web-based spatially-encoded standards including GeoRSS, GeoJSON, WMS, WFS
Distributed server architecture

In the geospatial arena, mobile GIS and field mapping devices are revolutionizing the way data is collected and conveyed. Free, internet-based applications such as Google Maps, Microsoft Live, and OpenLayers have drastically increased the audience for geospatial data. Even traditionally desktop-bound GIS applications such as ESRI's ArcGIS are now embracing distributed data sources.

This newfound need for distributed data has engendered several exciting changes within the GIS field including:

Increasing standardization and interoperability of gospatial data through XML-based encodings including KML and GML
The growing importance of Internet-based GIS data clearinghouses including Geospatial Onestop (GOS) , the GLIN GIS, and RAMONA
The increasing convergence of spatial and aspatial data (RSS -> GeoRSS, JSON -> GeoJSON).
The maturation of enterprise GIS to share across an organization