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Enable your enterprise with open Web services. (Internet GIS).

GEO World, January, 2003 by Dessard, Vincent; Tucker, Christopher

Tucker is president and CEO of IONIC Enterprise Inc. Dessard is a founder of IONIC Software SA.

IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE STATES AND LOCALITIES ARE able to securely publish their spatial data on any vendor platform. As a result, authorized regional and federal authorities can dynamically access their data on the fly without replicating the data or even knowing where the data are hosted. Imagine a world where organizations could expose their legacy Oracle, ArcSDE or other databases as spatial "Web services." Then powerful remote applications could continually be built against distributed datasets without an intimate knowledge of their underlying computational environments. Imagine a world where organizations could easily swap out their underlying products with...

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