GEOGRAPHIC BASED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

摘要

Systems and methods for managing geographic and other data structures. Using an administrator application, an administrator identifies geographic data structures deemed to be of interest to an organization and compiles associated reference information. The reference information includes retrieval addresses and display information specifying the display format of the data structures. The administrator can establish relationships between the referenced geographic data structures, tabular data, or other data, which define the manner in which multiple data structures are to be displayed. These relationships can be expressed in geographic themes that specify an application and associated geographic and tabular data structures that can be displayed by the application. A user application allows the user to select geographic information of interest. The user application receives the address information and display information from the administrator application and establishes communication with the remote sources to retrieve the relevant geographic data structures. Using the display information, the user application displays the retrieved data structures. Users can view and, if permitted by user access credentials defined by the administrator, edit the displayed data. Multiple users in an organization can retrieve the geographic information, which is organized and referenced on an organization-wide basis.