Online web GIS-based services for spatial data and sharing of leptospirosis epidemiology information; Development of pilot project in Mahasarakham province Thailand

Leptospirosis epidemiology Information sharing is important for the shared preparation, response, and recovery stages of sickness control. Leptospirosis epidemiology phenomena are powerfully associated with spatial and temporal factors. Online web GIS-based service provides a real-time and dynamic leptospirosis epidemiology way to represent leptospirosis epidemiology information on maps. Nevertheless, data integration, interoperability, and cartographic representation are still major challenges in the health geographical fields. These challenges cause and effect obstacles to sharing health information and stifle the success in understanding and responding to disease and epidemiology. To endeavor these challenges in leptospirosis epidemiology data mapping and sharing, the authors have designed Interoperability through Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs). Based on the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and Free Open Source Software (FOSS) specifications to share spatial-temporal leptospirosis epidemiology information. In this research, the authors developed service oriented architecture for online leptospirosis epidemiology mapping that is distributed, service implementation, and interoperable. The pilot project in this study was shown that the development of standard online health services and spatial data infrastructure could enhance the efficiency and effectiveness sharing leptospirosis epidemiology information.