Web-based Geographic Information Systems offer a way of delivering geographic information to devices with small computational power, such as smartphones. In recent years, the rapid development of the Web Graphics Library (WebGL) made it possible to create rich interactive applications running inside a web browser and displaying three-dimensional objects using hardware acceleration. This paper presents a three-dimensional Web-GIS based on various web technologies, such as WebGL, Web Map Services, JavaScript and the HTML5 standard. The created system can be run on any device with a modern web browser which supports the WebGL standard, including smartphones and tablets, without the need of installing any platform-specific components.
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- Category
- Aktywność konferencyjna
- Type
- publikacja w wydawnictwie zbiorowym recenzowanym (także w materiałach konferencyjnych)
- Language
- angielski
- Publication year
- 2014
