Architecture Overview

The following diagram shows an overview of the fundamental architecture of Spectrum™ Technology Platform Spatial Module, prior to any development, extension, or scaling.

The architecture consists of the following components:

Repository

The foundation of the Spectrum™ Technology Platform Spatial Module is the repository. It contains named resources such as named styles, named tables, named maps, named layers, and named configurations. See the Resources and Data section in the Spectrum™ Technology Platform Spectrum Spatial Guide on support.pb.com.

Core Services

The core services that Spatial Module provides are Mapping, Feature, and Geometry services. See the Services section in Spectrum Spatial Guide on support.pb.com for more information.

OGC Services

The OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) services include:
  • Web Map Service (WMS)
  • Web Feature Serivce (WFS)
  • Web Map Tiling Service (WMTS)

Map Tiling

The Map Tiling Service returns map tiles on the fly or from a tile cache at the user's request. See the Services section in the Spectrum Spatial Guide for more information.

Named Resource

You can use the Named Resource Service to manage almost any type of named resource in the repository. See the Services section in the Spectrum™ Technology Platform Spectrum Spatial Guide on support.pb.com.