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A framework with tools for designing web-based geographic applications

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The Nhan Luong,

Sébastien Laborie, and

Thierry NodenotAuthors Info & Claims

DocEng '11: Proceedings of the 11th ACM symposium on Document engineering

September 2011

Pages 33 - 42

https://doi.org/10.1145/2034691.2034699

Published: 19 September 2011 Publication History

Abstract

Many Web-based geographic applications have been developed in various domains, such as tourism, education, surveillance and military. However, developing such applications is a cumbersome task because it requires several types of components (e.g., maps, contents, indexing services, databases) that have to be assembled together. Hence, developers have to deal with different technologies and application behavior models. In order to create Web-based geographic applications and overcome these design problems, we propose a framework composed of three complementary tasks: identifying some desired data, building the graphical layout organization and defining potential user interactions. According to this framework, we have specified a unified model and we have encoded it using Semantic Web technologies, such as RDF. Through a prototype named WINDMash, we have implemented some tools that instantiate our model and automatically generate concrete Internet geographic applications that can be executed on Web browsers.

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A framework with tools for designing web-based geographic applications
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
    1. Document preparation
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Software implementation planning
        Software design techniques
    2. Software development process management

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DocEng '11: Proceedings of the 11th ACM symposium on Document engineering

September 2011

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DOI:10.1145/2034691

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Maulana HKanai H(2021)Utilizing Game Engine for Development Interactive 3-Dimensional Geographic Information System (GIS) Agriculture Commodity Selection and Land Evaluation2021 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC)10.1109/SMC52423.2021.9659036(3361-3366)Online publication date: 17-Oct-2021
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Viel CRodrigues KZaine ICunha BScalco LPimentel MCamilleri KBonnici A(2017)Personalized Ubiquitous Data Collection and Intervention as Interactive Multimedia DocumentsProceedings of the 2017 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering10.1145/3103010.3121046(223-226)Online publication date: 31-Aug-2017
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