Thursday 22 January 2009

"Multidimensional" WebGIS


As described in the picture above, WebGIS applications are related to spatial information, while BI (Business Intelligence) and MIS (Management Information Systems) systems are usually disjoined from it..they deal with alphanumeric data!
In a context in which BI-MIS and GIS technologies are joined, we prefer to use the term: Multidimensional WebGIS.
A Multidimensional WebGIS is a WebGIS application integrated in a BI environment, and able to:


(from Openhealth-DHIS2 online demo)
At the present this module doesn't support DRILL operations, the picture above is only an example
  • receive data from OLAP server and display spatial dimension as a cartographic feature on the map
    (the layers involved in only one OLAP analysis are more than one so for each OLAP analysis a Multidimentional WebGIS is able to swich from a map to another. Each map contains an OLAP "Measure")
  • display charts, diagrams and indicators on the map
  • do tipical BI operations as DRILL UP, DRILL DOWN directly from the map

No comments: