Web Feature Service

INscape™ (formerly known as Galdos Cartalinea) addresses the growing need for interoperable and standardized geographic information systems and services. INscape is compliant with W3C and OGC standards, including Web Feature Service. Future planned development will include support for the Web Coverage Service, and Sensor Collection Service.

In addition, INscape includes the following features:

• Implements OpenGIS™ specifications Web Feature Service (WFS) 1.0.9, Filter Encoding Implementation, GML v2.1.2 and 3.0.0
• Supports WFS transactions, feature locking, and OGC Filter spatial operators
• Stores and manipulates GML feature collections
• Transformation engine for user-defined data transformations such as schema mapping and coordinate transformations
• Action manager, which allows for user-defined real-time responses to changes in geographic data
• Data protection that employs user-authentication, data branding, and encryption
• Access control (SAML-compliant PDP)
• Maximized throughput enabled by compression and smart XML-parsing (codec)
• WFS Replicator that enables geographical data to be replicated to multiple WFSs with transactional support. Does not depend on the underlying storage model of the target WFS
• Supports GZIP and ZIP response compression

INscape was the first application fully conformant to the WFS 1.0 standard, and it comes with X-Hive/DB™, a cutting-edge native XML database. Customers can also keep their data in an existing DBMS (such as Oracle 9i Locator, Oracle Spatial, or ArcSDE) by purchasing the appropriate version of INscape.

A robuse 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 compliant with 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.

Features

• Performs WFS transactions on features and observations that include query, insert, update, and delete
• Retire or deprecate records building transaction profiles that allow users to establish a temporal dimension that can be incorporated into other applications
• Supports temporal operators
• Uses both GML 2.1.2 and GML 3.1.1
• Supports all UTF-8 special characters
• Enables customizable access control capabilities
• Supports GML observations

Benefits

• Supports definitions and conversions for multiple coordinate reference systems
• Users are able to share and maintain geospatial information in real-time
• Provides users with an audit trail of activitiy associated with the information
• Users are able to leverage time related data and create either a snapshot or time window view of the data
• Users are able to take advantage of widely accepted standards across different market segments (for example: S-57 maritime data)
• Provides multilingual support
• Allows administrators to manage user access to data and allows role-based access control
• Allows users to incorporate sensor and other real-time data into their applications
• allows users to dynamically integrate data using different CRS definitions

Technical Summary

System Requirements

• Windows 2003 and XP, or Linux RHE 4, or Solaris 10
• Tomcat 5.5 or JBoss 4.0.5
• JDK 5.0
• Oracle 10g, or ArcSDE 9.0 (on Oracle), or X-Hive/DB™ 7 (native XML database)

Supported Standards

GML 3.1.1:

OGC Specifications:

• WFS 1.0 compliant
• OGC Filter operators
• Supports OGC Filter Encoding

OASIS Specifications:

• SAML 2.0