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Geo-Communication, Web-Services, and Spatial Data Infrastructure: An Approach Through Conceptual Models

Geo-Communication, Web-Services, and Spatial Data Infrastructure: An Approach Through Conceptual Models

Lars Brodersen, Anders Nielsen
Copyright: © 2007 |Pages: 15
ISBN13: 9781599040752|ISBN10: 1599040751|EISBN13: 9781599040776
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-075-2.ch011
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Brodersen, Lars, and Anders Nielsen. "Geo-Communication, Web-Services, and Spatial Data Infrastructure: An Approach Through Conceptual Models." Emerging Spatial Information Systems and Applications, edited by Brian Hilton, IGI Global, 2007, pp. 240-254. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-075-2.ch011

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Brodersen, L. & Nielsen, A. (2007). Geo-Communication, Web-Services, and Spatial Data Infrastructure: An Approach Through Conceptual Models. In B. Hilton (Ed.), Emerging Spatial Information Systems and Applications (pp. 240-254). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-075-2.ch011

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Brodersen, Lars, and Anders Nielsen. "Geo-Communication, Web-Services, and Spatial Data Infrastructure: An Approach Through Conceptual Models." In Emerging Spatial Information Systems and Applications, edited by Brian Hilton, 240-254. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2007. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-075-2.ch011

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Abstract

The introduction of web-services as index-portals based on geo-information has changed the conditions for both content and form of geo-communication. A high number of players and interactions as well as a very high number of all kinds of information and combinations of these characterize web-services, where maps are only a part of the whole. This chapter discusses the relations between the different components of SDI and geo-communication as well as the impact thereof. Discussed is also a model for the organization of the passive components of the infrastructure; i.e. legislation, collaboration, standards, models, specifications, web-services and finally the information. Awareness of the complexity is necessary, and structure is needed to make it possible for the geo-information community to pull together in the same direction. Modern web-based geo-communication and its infrastructure looks very complex, and it will get even more complex! Therefore there is a strong need for theories and models that can describe this complex web in the SDI and geo-communication consisting of active components, passive components, users and information in order to make it possible to handle the complexity and to give the necessary framework.

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