ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume IV-2/W4, 2017 ISPRS Geospatial Week 2017, 18–22 September 2017, Wuhan, China WEB MAPPING ARCHITECTURES BASED ON OPEN SPECIFICATIONS AND FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE IN THE WATER DOMAIN C. Arias Muñoza, 1, M. A. Brovellib, C. E. Kilsedarb, R. Moreno-Sanchezc, D. Oxolib a Faculty of Engineering, Universidad de San Buenaventura, Carrera 56C Nro. 51-90, Medellín 050010, Colombia -
[email protected] b Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, P.zza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milan, Italy - (maria.brovelli, candaneylul.kilsedar, daniele.oxoli)@polimi.it c Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, USA 80217 -
[email protected] Commission IV, WG IV/4 KEY WORDS: Web Mapping, Water, Open Specifications, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), Decision Support Systems, Content Management Systems ABSTRACT: The availability of water-related data and information across different geographical and jurisdictional scales is of critical importance for the conservation and management of water resources in the 21st century. Today information assets are often found fragmented across multiple agencies that use incompatible data formats and procedures for data collection, storage, maintenance, analysis, and distribution. The growing adoption of Web mapping systems in the water domain is reducing the gap between data availability and its practical use and accessibility.