MapMint: The 100 % Service Oriented GIS Platform.

Abstract

OAn innovative approach to spatial data infrastructure management and geospatial data processing are presented in this paper. Composed of several complementary open source technologies, the MapMint platform introduces a web architecture solely based on open geospatial standards, and orchestrated by a new generation of extensible web processing services. This collection of services automates the data identification, provision and processing workflows from one single node, and gives the ability to generate a variety of standard compliant new web services. It also provide generic methods and tools to configure and publish webmapping applications making use of the available data sources and created web services. The design and implementation of such architecture is explained in the context of centralized and standard compliant spatial data infrastructures, and the structural principles of the MapMint open source platform are presented.