GeoBase and Toporama

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GeoBase and Toporama

• Jean-François Bourgon
• François Paquette

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GeoBase Initiave

• Initiave driven by the Canadian Council on
  Geomatics.
• Web Portal Prototype providing access to
  distributed Data.
• Based on CGDI Architecture Technologies.

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CGDI Architecture Technolgies

• Web Map Server
• OGC Standard endorsed by CGDI
• CWC2 WMS client
• CGDI WMS Client Component developed by DM
  Solutions Group
• Funded by GeoConnections
• GML Data
• OGC Standard endorsed by CGDI

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CGDI Architecture Technolgies

• Web Feature Server
• OGC Standard endorsed by CGDI
• Discovery Portal API
• CGDI Central Data, Services and Organizations
  Search Engine
• User Registration Directory Service
• CGDI Central User Registration facilities

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GeoBase Data Warehouse

• WMS Data Warehouse
• CTI (Road Network, Elevation, Geodetic Network,
  Reference)
• CEOWare (Orthoimages, Boundaries)
• CGDI-DEV (Geographical names)

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GeoBase WMS Client

• CWC2 Application
• CWC2 widget PHP scripts
• University of Minnesota Web Map Server
• GeoBase HTML Templates
• GeoBase XML Context
• GeoBase XML Themes
• WMS Interceptor
• Redirect GetMap Request
• Process GetFeatureInfo and GetCapabilities

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GeoBase GML Data

• GML as GeoBase Interchange Format
• Distributed Extraction Services (WFS or not)
  provide access to GML Data.
• Access to GeoBase Data is provided through a
  single Extraction Service.
• GML as GeoBase Delivery Format
• All Geobase Vector Data are available in GML.
• Alternative commercial format

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Discovery Portal API

• Search for Data Avalability
• Display Product Level Metadata
• Display Dataset Level Metadata
• Distributed Z39.50 Servers based on FCGD Metadata
  Standards

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User Registration Directory Service (URDS)

• Share User Registration facilities with other
  CGDI Services
• User Authentification done only once
• Develop URDS Java Component

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GeoBase Architecture Overview
GeoBase Portal Application
WMS Client CWC2
Servlet
Discovery Portal API
Discovery Portal Registry
Retrieving Service
User Registry
WFS
Z39.50 Server
WMS Server
FME
Data
Metadata
GeospatialData
Data Warehouse
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Toporama

• Build on CWC2 (Chameleon)
• 2 modes (Basic and advanced)
• Web Map Context
• Connection to other servers
• Locate (Postal code, Place name and NTS sheet)

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• Loaded Landsat images (6000/13000 NTS)
• Reloaded the database for bilingual application
• Interceptor with Toporama application
• RRN data
• SLD
• New database server CubeStor (Sun 8800)
• New servers for CubeServ (2x)
• New WEB infrastrucuture

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Without SLD
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With SLD
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Whats next

• Performance
• Map Publisher
• New version from CubeWerx
• From outside
• Opening site in August
• Automatic updating
• Replication with CFS