Sentence examples for open gis from inspiring English sources

"It's hard to find information you're interested in if it's not well indexed," said Dr. Cliff Kottman, vice president and chief scientist at the Open GIS Consortium, a group that promotes the use of geographic information online, "and one of the thorniest areas of indexing is by space or neighborhood.

It relies on the "Web Mapping Specification" defined by the Open GIS Consortium, which adds interoperability to the cartographic component of the system.

Module development for Web services adheres to the Open GIS Consortium (OGC) geospatial implementation and the World Wide Web consortium (W3C) standards.

This paper lays out a framework, based on the emerging Open GIS standards, which will allow the integration of parallel computing technology such that it becomes a viable component of a new generation of geographical information system (GIS) software.

The open architectures, which have been developed for web-oriented systems, together with those proposed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), suggest that an open GIS architecture could be developed as an alternative to proprietary systems.

These libraries handle, for example, the decomposition of the data, thus effectively encapsulating the parallelism within one component of the software and allowing the creation of high-performance software components which are compatible with the Open GIS service architecture.

For example, during the study it was common when using SPSS-GIS for the participants to: Open a GIS application and manually identify bordering areas on a map.

It is a standalone application, developed using Map Window Open Source GIS and visual basic 10.0.

In this paper, we use the open source GIS toolkit to implement a parallel contour generation algorithm.

It describes the overall architecture of the system, focusing in new developments of existing Free and Open Source GIS software.

Some free and open source GIS software programs feature compliance with ISO/OGC standards related to the distribution and sharing of geospatial data.