SPADA@WEB
The SPADA@WEB project aims at developing an integration, management, and visualization system for spatial
and geographical data, distributed within a Web environment and possibly heterogeneous, and able to support
data accesses from both fixed and mobile clients.
The development of the proposed systems is motivated by the need of building tools able to make available
spatial and geographical data to applications in a Web-like environment, and to integrate the various data
today available in various information sources across the Web.
Such an integration system will thus have to provide proper data modeling tools and data definition
languages, as well as efficient data transmission techniques across computer networks, and tools for data
protection in distributed systems.
It is also important to note that spatial and geographical information, because of their complexity,
require large data volumes for their representation. An efficient management of such data, taking into
account their specificity, is thus crucial in order to enable their effective use in a Web-like environment.
It is in addition important to note that several advanced applications, such as systems for location management,
require access to such data also from mobile systems. It is therefore necessary to develop a system architecture
that makes it possible accessing data not only from the traditional fixed clients,
but also from clients on mobile systems.
