OWGIS 2.0 Open Source Java Application That Builds Web GIS Interfaces for Desktop and Mobile Devices

Abstract

Keywords OWGIS version 2.0 is an open source Java and JavaScript application that builds easily configurable Web GIS sites for desktop and mobile devices. This version of OWGIS generates mobile interfaces based on HTML5 technology and can be used to create mobile applications. The style of the generated websites is modified using COMPASS, a well known CSS Authoring Framework. In addition, OWGIS uses several Open Geospatial Consortium standards to request data from the most common map servers, such as GeoServer. It is also able to request data from ncWMS servers allowing the display of 4D data from NetCDF files. This application is configured by XML files that define which layers, geographic datasets, are displayed on the Web GIS sites. Among other features, OWGIS allows for animations; vertical profiles and vertical transects; different color palettes; dynamic maps; the ability to download data, and display text in multiple languages. OWGIS users are mainly scientists in the oceanography, meteorology and climate fields. OWGIS, Web GIS, OpenLayers, GeoServer, ncWMS Categories and Subject Descriptors H.2.8 [Database Management]: Database Applications— Spatial databases and GIS ; J.2 [Computer Applications]: Physical Sciences and engineering— Earth and atmospheric sciences General Terms Algorithms, Design, Management Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from Permissions@acm.org. SIGSPATIAL ’14, November 04-07 2014 Dallas/Fort Worth, TX, USA Copyright 2014 ACM 978-1-4503-3131-9/14/11 ...$15.00. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2666310.2666381

Cite

@inproceedings{zavalaromero2014owgis,
  title = {OWGIS 2.0 Open Source Java Application That Builds Web GIS Interfaces for Desktop and Mobile Devices},
  author = {Zavala-Romero, Olmo and Chassignet, Eric P. and Zavala-Hidalgo, Jorge and Velissariou, Panagiotis and Pandav, H. and Meyer-Baese, Anke},
  year = {2014},
  doi = {10.1145/2666310.2666381},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/2666310.2666381},
}

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