How Huawei & SuperMap Fuse Cloud Computing with GIS for Smarter Government Services

Case Overview

Case Name: Huawei & SuperMap Government Cloud GIS Solution

Source: SuperMap Group

Industry: Government

Technology Area: Cloud Infrastructure

Huawei Product: FusionSphere OpenStack

Solution Overview

The solution integrates SuperMap's cloud GIS system with Huawei's cloud platform, embedding FusionSphere's resource management and scheduling capabilities into the SuperMap GIS cloud management platform via the eSDK Cloud API, enabling agile cloud resource scheduling and rapid GIS application deployment for government and surveying sectors.

Business Background

Approximately 80% of government information systems involve geographic data, leading to fragmented GIS platforms, duplicated efforts, and data silos. Traditional deployments suffer from long construction cycles, high maintenance costs, and difficulty scaling, while limited computing resources hinder data‑intensive GIS tasks.

Why Cloud GIS?

Rapid growth of geospatial data and diverse products (panoramic imagery, 3D models, BIM, point clouds) demand shared, cloud‑based GIS environments to store, manage, and compute efficiently; integrating GIS with cloud is an inevitable trend.

Solution Details

The solution provides centralized management of hardware and software resources through virtualization, establishing an IaaS platform for GIS resource pooling, elastic sharing, and reduced project cycles and costs. PaaS layer optimizations improve data access, parallel processing, and high‑performance computing for sectors such as land, surveying, environmental protection, and agriculture.

Figure 2 Architecture

Cloud GIS emphasizes encapsulating GIS business logic within the cloud manager, offering data‑intensive and compute‑intensive capabilities, on‑demand resource usage, and intelligent GIS services.

Figure 3 Rapid application environment

As a foundation for smart cities, the cloud GIS platform overlays various data layers (planning, education, environment, water, tourism, etc.) to enable “one map” integration, facilitating resource sharing, precise government decisions, and improved public services.

Figure 4 Smart city application model

Customer Benefits

Combining SuperMap's leading GIS platform, “One Map” solution, and Huawei's government cloud infrastructure delivers fast GIS environment construction, elastic resource scheduling, and resolves previous ICT constraints, enabling continuous, fine‑grained management of population, environment, socio‑economic, and natural resource information.

API Capabilities (based on eSDK‑Cloud Java API)

Virtual Machine Management: query, create, delete VMs.

User Management: authentication.

Alarm Management: query alarm info, retrieve alarm statistics.

Network Management: create, query, modify networks.

Storage Management: create and query disks.

Partner Introduction

SuperMap Group, a leading GIS software and service provider, collaborates closely with Huawei, offering SuperMap GIS platform software and technical support across multiple industries such as land, environmental protection, and surveying.