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Spectrum Spatial Guide

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Spectrum Technology Platform
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Spectrum Spatial Guide
Copyright
2025
First publish date
2007
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2025-09-26
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The following diagram shows an overview of the fundamental architecture of Spectrum Technology PlatformSpectrum Spatial, prior to any development, extension, or scaling.

The architecture consists of the following components:

Repository

The foundation of the Spectrum Technology PlatformSpectrum Spatial is the repository. It contains named resources such as named styles, named tables, named maps, named layers, and named configurations. For more information, see Resources and Data section.

Core Services

The core services that Spectrum Spatial provides are Mapping, Feature, and Geometry services. For more information, see Services section.

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. For more information, see Services section.

Named Resource

You can use the Named Resource Service to manage almost any type of named resource in the repository. For more information, see Services section.