Description

Only through the use of modern web technologies can larger user groups benefit directly from their GIS and geodata.

Requirements

Basic GIS knowledge

Objectives

• Differentiating between technologies and products
• Explain important map services and data formats from the area of Web GIS
• Know API and frameworks and use them in your applications
• Describe application areas and limits of WebGIS

Content

• System Landscape: Overview of Components
• Application possibilities and limits of WebGIS
• Comparison of “Consumer WebGIS” – “Professional WebGIS
• Vector and raster formats
• Services: WMS, WFS, WFS-T, WCS, WMTS
• Standards: OGC
• Products:
  – Commercial (Intergraph, ESRI, Tydac)
  – Open Source (UMN, CartoWeb, MapFish)
• Examples of cities, municipalities, cantons, the federal government and private individuals
• Performance: Tile Caching
• Trends, future development
• GIS as SAAS in the Cloud

Lesson Time

24 (3 Days)

Course Cost

CHF 900.-