A spatial web service client based on Microsoft Bing Maps

Author

Qu, Xin ; Sun, Min ; Xu, Chen ; Li, Jing ; Liu, Kai ; Xia, Jizhe ; Huang, Qunying ; Yang, Chaowei ; Bambacus, Myra ; Xu, Yan ; Fay, Dan

Author_Institution

Center for Intell. Spatial Comput., George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

24-26 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The NASA Spatial Web Portal (SWP) is designed to support the open discovery, access, and visualization of geospatial resources. In this paper, we introduce the development of a client for the SWP using Microsoft Bing Maps AJAX APIs. The client consists of three key components: resource search, resource access, and resource visualization. The visualization component provides generic capabilities for visualizing geospatial web services from various domains. Current version supports displaying OGC WMS services. Two modes of visualization are supported: static and dynamic. The client is developed based on Microsoft´s AJAX plug-ins for the Bing Maps with a) Bing Maps serving as the background map for the SWP, and b) Bing Maps controlling visualization of service data. This paper is focused on the interface design and challenges in development. Experience and challenges are discussed to assist future developments in geospatial web service clients.

Keywords

Java; Web services; application program interfaces; data visualisation; geographic information systems; AJAX API; Microsoft Bing maps; NASA spatial Web portal; OGC WMS services; geospatial Web services; geospatial resource visualization; spatial Web service client; Animation; Data visualization; Geospatial analysis; Servers; Spatial databases; Tiles; AJAX; Bing Maps; animation; spatial web portal;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoinformatics, 2011 19th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

ISSN

2161-024X

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-849-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GeoInformatics.2011.5981087

Filename

5981087