Creation of a Meta-Model for the Generation of a Webmapping Application

Paul Franck Hery Antenaina,Aimé Richard Hajalalaina,Reziky Zafimarina,Hasina Rakotonirainy

doi:10.4236/jgis.2021.134025

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Abstract

Our research focuses on creating a meta-model for generating a web mapping application. It was difficult for non-geomatics developers to implement a webmapping application. Indeed, this type of application uses geospatial data that require geomatics skills. For this reason, in order to help non-geomatics developers to set up a webmapping application, we have designed a meta-model that automatically generates a webmapping application using model-driven engineering. The created meta-model is used by non-geomatics developers to explicitly write the concrete syntax specific to the webmapping application using the xtext tool. This concrete syntax is automatically converted into source code using the xtend tool without the intervention of the non-geomatics developers.

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The technological evolution always brings more powerful tools especially in the field of information processing and more precisely in the processing of spatio-temporal data
It is difficult to create a webmapping application either for a user or even a developer, the need to create a meta-model for the generation of a webmapping application
We explored model-driven engineering, more precisely the Model Driven Architecture approach, and we clarified what we need to know about mapping and webmapping

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The technological evolution always brings more powerful tools especially in the field of information processing and more precisely in the processing of spatio-temporal data. Among the fields of use of the spatial data processing technique, a very elaborate tool lends itself best to use: the geographic information system and more precisely the online mapping or webmapping [1]. The user, whether he is a computer scientist, a geographer, a topographer, or a geographer, even if he is not a geomatics specialist, needs a tool to develop or automatically generate a webmapping application. We need a unique model to implement to generate any webmapping application. It is in this context that this article applies, we are interested in the creation of a meta-model for the generation of a webmapping application

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