Technologies
Open Standards and Open Source Solutions for GIS
Open Standards enable full integration of geospatial data and geoprocessing resources into mainstream computing
Open Standards and Open GIS
Farallon is expert with Open Source GIS software and is an active supporter of Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards for our client projects. The OGS standards are designed to enable full integration of geospatial data and geoprocessing resources into mainstream computing and the widespread use of interoperable geoprocessing software and geodata products throughout the information infrastructure.
Farallon's Geospatial Web Framework
Our modular web application framework for developing geospatial rich internet applications is based on the Open Geospatial Consortium's WMS, WFS, and well-known geometries. It also incorporates several Open Source Javascript libraries and can consume data from a wide variety of Open Source and proprietary sources including ESRI (tile caches, map services, and ArcObjects code), Google Maps, Microsoft's Bing Maps (Virtual Earth), Yahoo!, GeoServer, and spatially enabled databases (Oracle, SQL Server 2008, PostGIS).
Open Source and Open Interface Partners
OpenGeo
Farallon is expert with the Open Source geospatial software included in the OpenGeo Suite: PostGIS, GeoServer, GeoWebCache, OpenLayers, GeoEXT, GeoNode and OpenGeo Suite.
Oracle XE
Farallon is a an expert in Oracle XE, a free relational database management system that can natively store geometry features without the use of middleware such as ArcSDE. Any data or code that we develop within XE can be readily ported to Oracle 10g or Oracle Spatial.
MySQL
MySQL is an open source database that implements a subset of the SQL with Geometry Types environment of OpenGIS.
Free and open API mapping software
Farallon can integrate any GIS backend with free and open API mapping software such as Google Earth, Google Maps and Bing Maps.
"Plug and Play" GIS technologies
At Farallon, we build geo-spatial interoperability using standards and specifications already adopted by the IT community. Our approach is built upon:
- XML schema for encoding GIS Web Services
- XML Schema for the modeling, transport, and storage of geographic information
- Emergency Response Map Symbology
- Open Location Services
- Web Map Services
- ASP, JSP, .NET, J2EE platform development