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Application of Geospatial Mashups in Web GIS for Tourism Development

Application of Geospatial Mashups in Web GIS for Tourism Development

Somnath Chaudhuri, Nilanjan Ray
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 16
ISBN13: 9781522522553|ISBN10: 1522522557|EISBN13: 9781522522560
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2255-3.ch297
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Chaudhuri, Somnath, and Nilanjan Ray. "Application of Geospatial Mashups in Web GIS for Tourism Development." Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition, edited by Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., IGI Global, 2018, pp. 3403-3418. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2255-3.ch297

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Chaudhuri, S. & Ray, N. (2018). Application of Geospatial Mashups in Web GIS for Tourism Development. In M. Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition (pp. 3403-3418). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2255-3.ch297

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Chaudhuri, Somnath, and Nilanjan Ray. "Application of Geospatial Mashups in Web GIS for Tourism Development." In Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition, edited by Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., 3403-3418. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2255-3.ch297

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Abstract

This paper examines current development in Web GIS with the implementation of Geospatial Mashup technologies, such as Google Map in the context of map Mashups, and presents a classification of map Mashups and their application in tourism management and promotion. On the Web GIS context, Mashup is the process of merging multiple sources of data, both spatial and non-spatial, into a single integrated spatial display. It is about extracting spatial data from a non-spatial source and combining with other spatial data and finally displaying it on a map. This paper demonstrates that Geospatial Mashup has great potential to facilitate and widen the rapid development of the future web mapping technology in Web GIS in tourism development. It also highlights on the basic architecture and working principles of Map Mashups in context to tourism management. The final section of this research paper emphasizes on some issues and limitations inherent to the current Mashup technologies like privacy protection, copyright issues etc. which need to be worked out before its wider adoption.

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