Designing and Building TerraService

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September/October 2006 (vol. 10 no. 5) pp. 16-25

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	Tom Barclay, Jim Gray, Steve Ekblad, Eric Strand, Jeffrey Richter, "Designing and Building TerraService," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 16-25, September/October, 2006.

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	@article{ 10.1109/MIC.2006.95, author = {Tom Barclay and Jim Gray and Steve Ekblad and Eric Strand and Jeffrey Richter}, title = {Designing and Building TerraService}, journal ={IEEE Internet Computing}, volume = {10}, number = {5}, issn = {1089-7801}, year = {2006}, pages = {16-25}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIC.2006.95}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, }

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	TY - MGZN JO - IEEE Internet Computing TI - Designing and Building TerraService IS - 5 SN - 1089-7801 SP16 EP25 EPD - 16-25 A1 - Tom Barclay, A1 - Jim Gray, A1 - Steve Ekblad, A1 - Eric Strand, A1 - Jeffrey Richter, PY - 2006 KW - Web services KW - GIS KW - geographic information systems KW - TerraService KW - TerraServer VL - 10 JA - IEEE Internet Computing ER -

Tom Barclay, Microsoft

Jim Gray, Microsoft

Steve Ekblad, USDA NRCS Information Technology Center

Eric Strand, Synergetics

Jeffrey Richter, Wintellect

A few simple rules guide the design of Web services such as TerraService, a geospatial service added to Microsoft's popular TerraServer database. By sticking to standards-based tools, the authors were able to implement the Web service with no major structural changes to the database. Because it conforms to the "1-to-10 Kbytes in one second" guideline, TerraService offers a highly acceptable user experience. The success of two US Department of Agriculture applications that bridge the Web service and the database demonstrates the astuteness of the authors' design principles.

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Web services, GIS, geographic information systems,TerraService, TerraServer

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Tom Barclay, Jim Gray, Steve Ekblad, Eric Strand, Jeffrey Richter, "Designing and Building TerraService," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 16-25, Sep./Oct. 2006, doi:10.1109/MIC.2006.95

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