10 Despite most Spatial Data Infrastructures are offering service-based visualization of geospatial data, requirements are often at a very basic level leading to poor quality of maps. This is a general observation for any geospatial architecture as soon as open standards as those of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) shall be applied. To improve the situation, this paper does focus on improve...

Building on abstract reference models, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has established standards for storing, discovering, and processing geographical information. These standards act as basis for the implementation of specific services and Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI). Research on geo-semantics plays an increasing role to support complex queries and retrieval across heterogeneous in...

INTAMAP is a Web Processing Service for the automatic spatial interpolation of measured point data. Requirements were (i) using open standards for spatial data such as developed in the context of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), (ii) using a suitable environment for statistical modelling and computation, and (iii) producing an integrated, open source solution. The system couples an opensou...

A geographic information system (GIS) integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information. With the advancement of technologies and internet it allows for the emerging of GIS to be considered as a WebGIS. In order to build a WebGIS for connecting to geodata sources we need commonly acceptable standards for...

In 2006, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) started an initiative for gathering requirements and defining OGC Web Services that integrate information resources and workflows from the world of Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC) with the world of Open Geospatial Web Services. While the Geospatial world has typically concerned itself with information about the out-of doors, and larg...

The GeoWebAgri-project evaluates the use of spatial data in precision farming tasks. A service-oriented spatial data infrastructure working with standards could identified as optimal environment for the users’ needs. Using standards of OGC, ISO and W3C help to increase the functionality, usability and accessibility of spatial based applications in agriculture.