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A proposed framework for feature-level geospatial data sharing: a case study for transportation network data 

Author: Z. -R. Peng a
Affiliation:   a Center for Advanced Spatial Information Research, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413, USA
DOI: 10.1080/13658810512331319127
Publication Frequency: 12 issues per year
Published in: journal International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Volume 19, Issue 4 April 2005 , pages 459 - 481
Number of References: 39
Formats available: HTML (English) : PDF (English)
Previously published as: International journal of geographical information systems (0269-3798, 1362-3087) until 1996
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Abstract

Current data sharing in the Internet environment is supported using metadata at the file level. This approach has three fundamental shortcomings. First, sharing data from different sources with different semantics, data models, and acquisition methods usually requires data conversion and/or integration like data conflation. This can be tedious and error-prone. Second, data updated from one source cannot be automatically propagated to other related data or applications. Finally, data sharing at the file level makes it difficult to provide feature-level data for searching, accessing, and exchanging in real time over the Internet. This paper addresses these three issues by proposing a standards-based framework for sharing geospatial data in the transportation application domain. The proposed framework uses a standard data model—geospatial data model proposed by the Geospatial One-Stop initiative to harmonize the semantics and data models without the use of data integration methods. It uses Geography Markup Language (GML) for geospatial data coding and feature relationship, which provides a basis to propagate the data update from one source to related other sources and applications, and to search and extract data at the feature level. The framework uses the Web Feature Service (WFS) to search, access and extract data at the feature level from distributed sources. Finally, the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) standard was used for data display on the Web browser. Two transportation network datasets are used in the prototype case study to implement the proposed framework. The prototype allows the user to access and extract data at the feature level on the Web from distributed sources without downloading the full data file. It shows that the proposed standards-based feature-level data-sharing system is capable of sharing data without data conflation, accessing, and exchanging data in real time at the feature level. The prototype also shows that changes in one database can be automatically reflected or propagated in another related database without data downloading.
Keywords: XML; Geography Markup Language (GML); Data sharing; Web Feature Service (WFS); Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG); Geospatial one-stop
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