Each system manages geospatial databases according to its own data model, and performs specific database management functions according to the procedures requested by users.
It has become the de facto tool of choice for utility owners for creating, organizing and managing geospatial utility information (Sipes 2007).
GIFT harnesses and manages geospatial metadata acquired during recording time and intelligently indexes field of views (FOVs) to deal with large volumes of data.
But in that time, the internet's geospatial resources, or the "geoweb", have developed enough intricacy, sophistication and responsiveness to become an indispensable consumer tool.
Some, such as popular third party travel app Citymapper, use Google's own mapping data, while other services have created their own geospatial resources.
The advancement of geospatial interoperability research has fostered the proliferation of geospatial resources that are shared and made publicly available on the Web.
Versatile geospatial resources accessed through Web Service interfaces, and numerous environmental models following OpenMI can be plugged in GeoJModelBuilder flexibly.
However, their increasingly availability has made the identification of the web signature of voluminous geospatial resources a major challenge.
As Web services technology has matured in recent years, an increasing amount of geospatial resources and processing functions are available in the form of online Web services.
"That seems like a curious way to manage public resources".
