White Papers
This section contains white papers that have been authored by CubeWerx staff and affiliates. Adobe Acrobat reader is required to view the papers.
- SDI Interoperability: Article edited & published in Position Magazine (Feb 2006, updated Oct 2009)
The word ‘Interoperability’ conjures up different things to different people, therefore its not surprising it has caused concern and confusion in the geospatial market place and with IT professionals. The geospatial market is a collection of professionals, paraprofessionals and end users that have their roots in diverse disciplines including geography, cartography, surveying, remote sensing, etc
- MetaData Discovery: Editorial submitted for publication in Position Magazine (May 2007)
As we collect mountains of geospatial data from various sources such as government mapping programs, from private aerial photography and satellite acquisition programs we migrate into an era of deployment that demands efficient storage and access to these resources. A data dissemination environment that has its own peculiar issues that the GIS data production community typically have limited experience with. ....
- Google Maps and the ASDI: Editorial published in Position Magazine (Nov 2006)
There is a lot of hype about Google Maps and Google Earth these days. Some people are asking the question 'why can't our GIS implementation be this easy to use?' Some people are even suggesting that Google will leapfrog the need to establish a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) all together. ....
- Spatially Enabled Business Intelligence: Whitepaper on Business Intelligence (Mar 2006)
Many organisations have amassed huge quantities of data that they need to analyse in order to help them make objective operational decisions. These huge quantities of data are augmented by the plethora of externally published data that can be fed right to the desktop via internet technology. In order to successfully synthesize these data, specialised data mining solutions and Business Intelligence (BI) applications ...
- Cascading Web Map Servers: Whitepaper on the case for Cascading WMSes (Mar 2006)
As part of its Open Service Framework (OSF) the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) supports the concept of service chaining such that any web application can be anything from a simple web spatial viewer to a spatially enabled and complex business application. The notion of chaining web services is not new but the application within a spatial context somewhat is ...
- SDIs and Security: WhitePaper on Web Service security (Nov 2005)
Providing and highly secure access to web deployed geospatial data has been a priority since before September 11, 2001, but even more so today. This is because geographically depicting data adds another dimension of intelligence ....
- Spatial Data Infrastructures and CubeWerx - August 2005
The concept of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) have been around for quite some time now with different countries and jurisdictions approaching it from different aspects. Companies like CubeWerx have embraced these initiatives and developed products and services targeted specifically for this market segment ....
- Service Oriented Architectures: White paper submitted for publication - December 2005
The concept and promise of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is still only five or six years old but it will have an even bigger role in the spatial systems arena as the Web becomes even more pervasive both internally and externally for organisations. But what is SOA, ....
- Web-enabled multi-vendor GIS environments - July 2002
