MECOSIG adapted to the design of distributed GIS

Authors:
Fabien Pasquasy;François Laplanche;Jean-Christophe Sainte;Jean-Paul Donnay
Affiliations:
Unit of Geomatics, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium;Unit of Geomatics, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium;Unit of Geomatics, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium;Unit of Geomatics, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
Venue:
OTM'05 Proceedings of the 2005 OTM Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems
Year:
2005

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Abstract

For more than ten years MECOSIG has been used as a method for GIS design and implementation in various national and international projects achieved in our laboratory. During a decade, the method has been progressively improved and extended without modification of its basic principles. However the emergence of distributed GIS, implying several organizations capable to play various roles, requires the reappraisal of the methodology. New concerns are identified and a collection of new tools must be deployed. Taking the most of various recent researches completed for public authorities in Belgium, this paper presents some significant adaptations of the original MECOSIG method in order to cope with a distributed GIS environment.