Abstract:
OpenCarto houses the SWERA web based GIS application and provides the tools and data to support a variety of user communities in both small and large project planning, feasibility assessment, policy making, and decision support. The interface is designed to support collaboration across industries, geography, and research domains by providing interoperability between a wide range of data types and
... data sources. All of the data accessible through the SWERA application can be made available as web services based on spatial data standards and the application itself can display and explore data from any standards based spatial data service provider. This support for interoperability allows data from a wide range of providers including government, industry, and academia to be seamlessly integrated into one interface for analysis, querying, and exploration.
Because the OpenCarto framework was developed to support multiple independent applications each application has an intuitive, self-contained interface that provides users with a focused portal specific to their needs. This is expressed in the SWERA web based GIS where the potential to provide users with a very large catalog of data does not present data overload in the interface, an identified issue related to many data catalogues. 
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