INscape™

Web Feature Service

INscape™ (formerly known as Galdos Cartalinea) addresses the growing need for interoperable and standardized geographic information systems and services. INscape implements W3C and OGC standards, including Web Feature Service (WFS) and Geography Markup Language (GML).

INscape was the first application fully conformant to the WFS 1.0 standard, and it comes with EMC xDB (formerly known as X-Hive), a cutting-edge native XML database. Customers can also keep their data in an existing RDBMS by purchasing the appropriate version of INscape.

A robust and scalable software solution, INscape can be implemented on top of existing databases to enable users to share current geographic information as well as changes. INscape is a fully transactional Web Feature Service (WFS) server that implements Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) specifications. INscape is successfully deployed as part of operational production solutions in a variety of sectors, including security, defence, natural resources management, local and regional government administration, transportation and utility sectors.

Benefits

  • Default configuration includes support for multiple CRSs, and additional CRSs can be configured
  • Users are able to share and maintain geospatial information in real-time
  • Users are able to take advantage of widely accepted standards across different market segments (for example: S-57 maritime data)
  • Allows users to incorporate sensor and other real-time data into their applications
  • Allows users to dynamically integrate data using different CRS definitions

Key Features

  • Implements OpenGIS™ specifications Web Feature Service (WFS) 1.0.0 with some extensions from WFS 1.1.0, Filter Encoding Implementation, GML versions 3.1.1 and 3.2.1
  • Supports WFS transactions, feature locking, and OGC Filter spatial operators
  • Stores and manipulates GML feature collections, feature arrays, and nested objects
  • Transformation engines for user-defined data transformations, such as schema mapping, and for coordinate transformations
  • Performs coordinate transformations between the requested/supplied CRS and the storage CRS
  • Replicates geographical data to multiple WFSs with transactional support in a way that does not depend on the underlying storage model of the target WFS
  • Supports GZIP and ZIP response compression
  • Performs WFS queries and transactions (insert, update, and delete) on GML features, feature collections, and observations
  • Resolves XLink references to arbitrary depth
  • Works with data encoding in GML 3.1.1 and GML 3.2.1
  • Supports all UTF-8 special characters
  • Enables customizable access control capabilities
  • Supports CityGML

Technical Summary

Operating Environment

  • Windows 2003 and XP, or Linux RHE 4, or Solaris 10 (or later versions)
  • Tomcat 6 or higher, or Glassfish 3.1
  • JDK 1.6
  • Oracle 10g or 11g, or xDB 10 (native XML database)

Supported Standards

  • WFS 1.0 compliant
  • GML 3.1 and 3.2
  • OGC Filter operators