7 Assembling Cloud-Based Geographic Information Systems:A Pragmatic Approach Using Off-the-Shelf Components

Muhammad Akmal, Ian Allison and Horacio González–Vélez

Contents

  1. Summary

  2. 7.1 Introduction

  3. 7.2 Background

  4. 7.3 Methodology

  5. 7.4 Implementation

    1. 7.4.1 Scaling and Fault Tolerance

  6. 7.5 Evaluation

    1. 7.5.1 Performance Testing

    2. 7.5.2 Processing Time

  7. 7.6 Conclusion and Future Work

  8. Glossary

  9. Acknowledgments

  10. References

Summary

In this chapter, we present a novel systematic way of building a web-based geographic information system (GIS) running on cloud services. The proposed architecture aims to provide a design pattern for building a cloud-based GIS using simple and readily available low-cost tools with great overall system efficiency. The result ...

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