Geographic Information System (GIS) platform software enters the cloud era

"Geographic Information System (GIS) platform software localization rate of the next target is 70%, the iron also needs its own hard, geographical information enterprises must continue to increase the investment in innovation, continuous upgrading and improve products, in order to be worthy of the support of domestic software." Song, deputy director of the National Surveying and Mapping Geographic Information Bureau, said at the 2014 China Geographic Information Industry conference that GIS platform software is the technical core of geo-information industry, the commanding point of technological innovation and industrial development, and the key to ensure National Geographic information security.

In recent years, with the popularization of geographic information technology and related knowledge, the market scale of GIS platform software is expanding, the global market volume of 2013 is about 10 billion yuan, the average is also increasing at 15% per year, and it becomes one of the fastest growing basic software categories. Into the 21st century, the use of large data will become a key element in future competitiveness. The strong demand of information sharing, information integration and information mining based on space and time dimension in large data age brings great opportunity to the development of GIS platform software.

Increasing localization rate of GIS platform software

For a long time, GIS software has been defined as an industry application software that has been neglected. In fact, GIS software includes both platform software and application software. GIS platform software is all geographical information application system two times development platform (such as hyper-graph software (300036, stock bar) of the Supermap GIS platform only in China has more than 500 two developers), all kinds of geographical information application software is through the GIS platform software to store, Access to and management of geographic information data.

The GIS platform software is a generalized middleware which is located in the operating system and the database, and has a wide range of applications, covering dozens of sectors of government and enterprise, and is an important basic software for Intelligent city and many e-government construction. GIS platform Software in the Geographic information field, is equivalent to the status of the operating system in it, in a very central position, once the GIS platform software is breached, all the geographic information data and other related data will be completely exposed. At present, most of GIS applications are network applications, so there is no security of GIS platform software. The localization of GIS platform software is very important to the national information security.

It is understood that in recent years, the domestic independent GIS platform software technology development faster, market share rapid rise, the domestic market share of about 40%. But because of the long-term monopoly of foreign brands market, the historical stock is still very large, more than 60% of the system still use foreign (mainly U.S.) GIS platform software.

Researcher of National Key Laboratory of resources and Environment Information System of Institute of Geography and Resources of CAs, Chen Rong, core expert of the Expert Committee on Domestic Geographic Information system software evaluation, said that after years of development, China's GIS technology has achieved a qualitative leap. For example, China has successfully developed a High Security Geospatial database management System, grid GIS platform and three-dimensional GIS platform with independent intellectual property rights, which means that we can get rid of the passive situation of the core technology controlled of the spatial data management in the future, from the base of the GIS platform software to the foreign manufacturers. To achieve the spatial data management-analysis-service-visualization of the full localization of GIS applications to lay a solid foundation.

The GIS platform software of foreign mainstream GIS vendors (such as ESRI, Intergraph, MapInfo and Bentley) is mainly based on the Windows kernel and cannot natively support the native Linux operating system. The so-called Linux operating system supports running by installing additional Windows virtual environments. This technical architecture, not only low performance, but still can not get rid of the Windows environment. In addition, the above foreign GIS brands do not support domestic databases.

And China's independent GIS platform, such as Supermap, Mapgis and so on, in the National 863 Project support, completed the core of technical transformation and upgrading, native support of domestic Linux server and Workstation operating system, as well as domestic database, and in a large number of industry applications have been validated.

Independent GIS research and development level and international equivalent

At present, the world's mainstream GIS manufacturers mainly in the United States, in addition to Chinese enterprises, compared to Europe, Japan, Korea's GIS industry is very small.

In recent years, domestic enterprises in product research and development process management has developed rapidly, including agile development, continuous integration and automated testing of the very advanced high-quality software development process capabilities.

In the GIS Platform software research and development team scale, the domestic super graph software has more than 180 people, Wuhan and JAL also more than 100 people, and the international first brand ESRI Company's platform software research and development team is only more than 200 people, the United States other GIS platform software companies are fewer, There is little difference in the scale of research and development team of GIS enterprises at home and abroad.

In addition, the independent GIS platform software technology can completely compete with similar products abroad. The National Remote Sensing Center of Science and Technology has been conducting GIS software evaluation activities for more than more than 10 years, the evaluation shows that the early domestic and foreign product technical ability difference is really large, but the domestic GIS platform development is very fast, in recent years, many independent GIS platform software in performance and function and international first-class brand difference is very little In recent years, some of the domestic GIS software manufacturers attach importance to technological innovation, mastered a number of core technology and invention patents, and in the cloud GIS, two or three-D GIS and other emerging technology areas to lead the industry's technology trends.

In addition, some of the domestic GIS platform software (such as Supermap GIS) also achieved export, although the scale of overseas revenue accounted for only about 10% of the total income, but the user distribution has more than 100 countries and regions, including the product requirements are very harsh Japanese market.

GIS platform software enters the cloud era

As the basic software of management and spatial information, GIS platform software has already become one of the basic support technologies of information application and resource sharing of Intelligent city, digital sharing platform system in various industries, and its security and stability are directly related to the security sharing and interaction of all kinds of data resources. That is, from the large data industry chain downstream to upstream may involve geo-information-related software.

In addition, with the development of mobile internet technology in recent years, various kinds of lbs, vehicle monitoring (including all kinds of special vehicles) and other mobile application services have sprung up, geographic information platform software throughout the application of the Cloud + end of each link, has become the support of geo-information technology and mobile Internet, IoT, Automotive networking and cloud computing and other emerging technologies integrated application of key support software.

Recently, with Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent Internet 3 giant Map War prologue opened, geographical information industry has received unprecedented attention. As an international leading technology of GIS platform software manufacturers, GIS is different from the Internet electronic map, it can do 3 categories of things, the first is geographical decision, followed by geographical design, the third is geographical control, such as disaster verification, dam-breaking risk assessment are based on GIS applications.

Early GIS is a very small professional technology, with the technology change and demand applications, GIS constantly open up the territory, until now fully integrated with the Internet, into the cloud GIS era. At present, China's Geographic information platform software technology is becoming more and more mature, two or three-dimensional integration, cloud computing and mobile GIS applications. SUPERMAP7C is the latest research and development of cloud integration Platform software, on the one hand can support the use of GIS software, to build cloud applications. On the other hand, mobile GIS can be used on various terminals. In addition, the realization of the public cloud services docking.

Affected by the Internet and cloud computing, the business of the geo-information industry chain will gradually migrate to the cloud in the future. It can not be ignored that the Internet giant Cross-border acquisitions and the next step of the introduction of the "Grounding gas" application, which is an opportunity for geo-information enterprises and challenges. The development direction of GIS industry in the future is to explore the geographic business intelligence by leveraging the Internet transformation and combining large data. "Wang Kanghong said.