Distribution,interoperability,interactivity,componentarefourmainfeaturesofdistributedGIS.Basedontheprincipleofhypermap,hypermediaanddistributeddatabase,thepapercomesupwithakindofdistributedspatialdatamodelwhichisinaccordancewiththosefeaturesofdistributedGIS.Themodeltakescatalogserviceastheoutlineofspatialinformationglobalization,anddefinesdatastructureofhypermapnodeindifferentlevel.Basedonthemodel,itisfeasibletomanageandprocessdistributedspatialinformation,andintegratemulti_source,heterogeneousspatialdataintoaframework.Traditionally,toretrieveandaccessspatialdataviaInternetisonlybythemeormapname.Withtheconceptofthemodel,itispossibletoretrieve,load,andlinkspatialdatabyvector_basedgraphicsontheInternet.
