CartoCiudad Web Services: Standard Web Services for the location, routing and navigation on official geographic data in Spain

摘要

This paper presents CartoCiudad project as an official thoroughfare network database, supplemented with nationwide urban cartography and census and postal districts, which data are provided by the competent Public Administrations, at both state and autonomous level, coordinated by the National Geographic Institute since 2006. Designed to be exploited through Internet using standard web services, CartoCiudad's GIS topological structure facilitates routing calculation between addresses anywhere in Spain as well as other geoprocesses.