NOAA's Enterprise GIS Web Services Hosting
Environment project is prototyping a centralized hosting platform that NOAA
geospatial data providers will use to upload and publish their data via Web
services that implement OGC Web service interface standards. The goal is to
give all NOAA data providers access to a NOAA-wide common platform enabling
standards-based, interoperable data sharing and publishing, without needing to
configure and maintain the software at the program office level. To minimize
costs and maximize performance and scalability, the hosting platform leverages
popular open source GIS software packages GeoServer and PostGIS customized to
work within NOAA's enterprise computing environment.