Abstract—Web applications and portals are strategic gateways to deliver tools, data, computational infrastructures and services over the Internet. Software and data interoperability is the key factor to enable the integration of knowledge and share common objectives. Web applications are using ever more big spatial data ecosystems that usually involve cross-border data flows and rely on open Internet. Demand of web GIS based applications, in particular, shows a steady growth over the last few years, indicative of a scenario where spatial-data infrastructures will be ever more consumed by mobile and web applications. Management and analysis of large and growing volumes of geo-data is challenging the scientific community without clear long term solutions. The INNO project’s objective is to improve, develop and apply innovative, state of the art technologies to efficiently query, render and expose on the web spatially enabled data. The solution proposed is based on a NoSQL database infrastructure, on the set up of a efficient innovative communication protocol and the use of a light web-GIS client library to view results. Two specific goals are recognized to be of paramount importance; to improve the consumption of spatial data on the WEB and to build regional capacities on Global Earth Observation (GEO) proposing new standards and approaches.

Index Terms—No-SQL, Couchbase db, GIS, big data, GEOSS, WMS, WFS, web applications

Cite: P. Cau, S. Manca, R. Demontis, D. Muroni, C. Soru, L. Muscas, E. Lorrai, and P. A. Marras, "A NoSQL Geo-Data Solution for the Consumption of Services on the Web," Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 88-92, May, 2016. doi: 10.12720/jait.7.2.88-92