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Up in the air: adventures in serving geospatial data using open source software and the cloud

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In recent years GIS and web technologies have advanced to allow the sharing of geospatial data on the web. Land management agencies sometimes have a need to simply post GIS datasets on the web and don't always require advanced GIS modeling capabilities on the server. There are many products available to serve geospatial datasets on the web, but many of these have a complicated setup, costly license fees, and provide more capabilities than are needed in some use cases. There is also a need to simplify web server setup. In this paper we describe an inexpensive and simple solution for agencies to post and share GIS data on the web using open source map servers and open source GIS clients deployed on a virtual cloud server.

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COM.Geo '10: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference and Exhibition on Computing for Geospatial Research & Application
June 2010
274 pages
ISBN:9781450300315
DOI:10.1145/1823854
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  1. Amazon web services
  2. EC2
  3. Ext JS
  4. GIS
  5. GeoExt
  6. GeoServer
  7. JavaScript
  8. MapServer
  9. OpenLayers
  10. USDA forest service
  11. WMS
  12. cloud computing
  13. geospatial
  14. land management agencies
  15. virtual server

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