Automatic Generation of Geographic Urban Applications for the Web with the Case Tool Aigle

A growing number of urban GIS-based applications for the web have been developed and marketed last decade (traffic monitoring, site location and remote geographic databases access, ....). The development of these applications is mostly a heavy task and time consuming. To address problems related to the development and the customisation of these applications, the CASE Tool named AIGLE [3] is extended in order to support the automatic generation of two-tier and the three-tier web-based architectures. AIGLE is designed for customisation of GIS-based applications and automatic generation of programs in different languages such as MapBasic (for MapInfo) or Java. Thus, the user of AIGLE may generate easily, thanks to a user-friendly interface, a similar application for the GIS MapInfo and for the web environment in Java language. AIGLE has been marketed since July 1998 by CIRIL SA. In this paper, we will describe AIGLE and present two-tier and three-tier web-based GIS architectures. An example of generated urban application for land management will be also depicted. Finally, we conclude by highlighting perspectives of our work.