Spatial data Internet progressive transmission control based on the geometric shapes similarity

It is very difficult to transmit spatial data over the Internet rapidly because of huge data volume and limited network bandwidth. How to transmit spatial data over the Internet is becoming a big problem. Based on the Distance View and the Characteristic Set View, this paper proposes a Spatial Data Similarity Model (SDSM) and a set of methods to measure the similarity of points, polylines and polygons, then this paper puts forward a spatial data progressive transmission method based on the SDSM, which is prior to transmit the spatial data that is most important for shape from server to clients. The experiments tested the progressive transmission control of the polylines and polygons data by the similarity at different resolutions, The results show that the SDSM is beneficial to progressive transmission of spatial data at different resolutions and is a promising solution to the progressive transmission of spatial data over internet. © 2014 Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems and The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.