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Commonwealth of PA Geospatial
Enterprise Architecture Over the next few months, the Bureau of Geospatial Technologies will be launching GIS mapping services and enterprise geospatial web services for use by all state agencies and local governments and first responders in the Commonwealth. A high-availability, fault tolerant server architecture has been built that will host the Commonwealth's enterprise geospatial data repository as well as a scalable application hosting environment. All enterprise geospatial data assets (e.g. PAMAP) and state agency geospatial data assets that need to be shared will be stored in an Oracle/ArcSDE database and will be served to business partners through a secure web interface. Reusable web services exist for address and boundary geocoding, and are being designed and implemented for routing, spatial searches, plume modeling, gazetteers, and mapping. Local governments, Regional Counter-Terrorism Task Forces (RCTTFs), and other government business partners will be able to register for access to these enterprise services. BGT will host mapping services through Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) compatible interfaces to promote interoperability so that all GIS desktop software clients will be able to access them. Stacey White |
