Overview - Web Mapping 2
Will extend the Research and Development effort of WMTI:
- Catalog Services
- Distributed search, Dynamically settable service parameters, Extended service metadata/service registries, Accommodate adding data back ends into the chain (In aid of clearinghouse data holder connectivity into the WMT), Self Publishing/Unassisted Catalog Population
- Map Server Interface "adjustments"/enhancements
- GetMap "adjustments" - VMRL, separate "get" part from "map" part, GetData/GetFeatureInfo/GetCoverage/GetCoverageValue(s), GML, Geotiff, HDF (multidimensional > 2), Time as a dimension (ISO 8601 time compliant
- Authentication, security, access controls
- (for various reasons, privacy, sensitivity, commercial need)
- Context objects (session info)
- GML & XML technologies
- RDF/RDFS, XML Schema, Xpointer/Xlink
- Portrayal
- Legends, Symbolization/Symbology "engines"