Geodata Conferencing

The development team aimed to provide the following functionality for the geodata conference system:

• Success to and fusion of geospatial information from multiple sources;
• User control over displayed layers;
• A synchronized viewer;
• Georeferenced pointers;
• Georeferenced, editable annotations;
• Text messages;
• Session persistence; and
• Templates for rapid set-up.

The Solutions

The geodata conference system is built on the following principles:

• Three server components: a conferencing server, a data router and a data provider;
• Only images (rendered information) travel beyond the data provider;
• Components communicate using TCP/IP, and can be distributed; and
• Sessions are saved as XML (map background metadata, annotations and log).

Click on the image to view the architecture of the geodata conference system.