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Geographic Information Systems: implementation

Authors: Pierre-Alain AYRAL, Sophie SAUVAGNARGUES, Yannick FOGUE-DJOMBOU, Billy POTTIER, Florian TENA-CHOLLET, Vincent THIERION

Publication date: February 10, 2022

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3. Web-oriented GIS

This section dedicated to Web-oriented GIS is organized around a first part recalling the fundamental principles, followed by a second part devoted to the presentation of a case study on the implementation of a participatory mapping platform.

3.1 Web platform

The advent of the Internet and, more broadly, of computer networks in the late 1990s and early 21st century has opened up new horizons for geographic information systems (GIS) and the way they operate. One of the underlying aims of GIS is the exchange and sharing of geographic data and information between different users, whether or not they belong to the same organization. This is often referred to as "data banking". The growing maturity of GIS, coupled with that of the Internet, has opened the way to...

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