Components of a Web GIS application
There are some essential elements in Web GIS:
- The server has a URL so that clients can find it on the web.
- The client relies on HTTP specifications to send requests to the server.
- server performs the requested GIS operations and sends responses to the client via HTTP.
- The format of the response sent to the client can be in many formats, such as HTML, binary image, XML (Extensible Markup Language), or JSON (JavaScript Object Notation).
