Geographic information system (GIS) technology is a combination of computers graphic and database to store and process spatial information. According to the users demands, GIS exports the exact geographic information and related information for users with map and description through associating geographic place and related attributes. Based on the existing popular technology, this paper presents a distributed web GIS application based on component technology and fractal image compression. It presents the basic framework of the proposed system at first, and then discusses the key technology of implementing this system; finally it designs a three-layer WEB GIS instance using VC++ ATL based on Geo Beans. The example suggests the proposed design is correct, feasible and valid.