CNIG´s API and new version of Iberpix

Abstract

National Centre of Geographical Information (CNIG) has developed a new API (application programming interface) with the aim to have the different viewers published by the CNIG sharing the same technology. The API based on Javascript and OpenLayers consists of a lightweight CORE extended through different plugins that solves the different needs in a horizontal way. The project has been designed from the outset to facilitate its reuse, both internally and for the rest of the geospatial community. Thus, all the code is available in a public GitHub repository and the configuration of the viewers has been documented in a wiki. As an example of the API, the new version of Iberpix, being one of the most successful viewers of the National Geographic Institute (IGN Spain), which prioritizes the visualization of SCNE and IGN products in a simple and agile way. In its different versions, several functionalities have been added that are widely used by different groups such as hikers, teaching professionals, consultants, geomatics, etc. The new Iberpix corrects some functionalities that had a complex design and recovers others that had lost prominence in the last versions and that have continued to be demanded by users.