Building an SDI with FOSS
Abstract:
A spatial data infrastructure (SDI) seeks to harmonise users with the provision of data, metadata, software and computational services to provide a productive and fl exible environment for working with geospatial data. In an enterprise environment, the development of an SDI constitutes the foundations of the GIS department or group in your organisation. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) provides a number of standards for various elements of an SDI. In this article, we will review the software options provided by the FOSSGIS (Free and Open Source software for Geographical Information Systems) community for developing an OGC standards compliant spatial data infrastructure (SDI). This will provide the foundation for future articles where we will delve into some of the individual projects described below.
Ref: GIS Professional Magazine
June 2018