Database applications integrated with WebGIS

Since many years there were trials to integrate the two worlds, Database applications and GIS, sometimes also withs very strange approaches and techiques. Normally those initiatives were not successful because of the underlying technogies which didn't permit the requested flexibility and performance.

The SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA) of the mapaccel WebGIS Framework and his web and desktop clients permit this integration in a very functional and meanwhile heavily tested manner.

Two are the fundamental parameters for the success of these integrated database applications:

• the minimal impact on the existent IT system (network, calculators)
• the reuse of the WebGIS application services exposed by the mapaccel server,

The Autonomous Province of Bolzano - South Tyrol has built several applications on this type and all are running with considerable success and for complete endconsumer satisfaction.

The Region Piemonte (ARPA Piemonte) recently has decided to go the same way.