The Raster Storage Archive
Alex Fraser
Standard (30 minutes) on Thursday, 25 November 2010 14:30 - 15:00 in room Room 1
TAGS: Databases, Web & Online Technologies, Java, Licensing, Strategy, Business Models, Case Studies, GDAL, Geospatial, GWT
Using open source technologies, we have built a web application that enables the storage and transformation of large amounts of geospatial data. The system acts as a database to be used by other applications, and scales to high-resolution national datasets.
The talk will present how we are using open source libraries and tools to achieve this. The first half will mostly focus on the system architecture – a series of web services that drive Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) command-line programs – and the advantages this has over a pure database approach.
The second half of the talk will address the importance of using open standards (e.g. interoperability), and the advantages for our client of using open source solutions (e.g. cost and maintainability).
Alex Fraser
Software Engineer
Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing
Alex has a Bachelor of Information Technology (Software Engineering) from the Australian National University. He has worked on several virtual engineering and virtual reality software projects at the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC). Alex has always had an interest in graphics and spatial information, however this is his first geospatial project.
Bios for others involved in the development of this software will be provided later.