An Interoperable Web Service Architecture to Provide Base Maps Empowered by Automated Generalisation

Producing customized base maps generated by automated generalisation on the web is an important issue in physical planning. In this web context an interoperable architecture is a key requirement. It integrates the necessary data and the functionality to finally perform the generation of the base map. Additionally, interoperability increases the reuse of the architecture for other domains. In this paper we will describe such an architecture. It has two key features: it supports the user profiles to specify the generalisation constraints and the generalisation-enabled WMS, which generates the base map according to the user profiles. The specialized WMS is especially able to access Web Service-based generalisation functionality. For the implementation of the architecture we used Geoserver, 1Spatial’s Clarity and 52° North WPS.