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Part of the book series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science (SECS, volume 495)
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Interoperating Geographic Information Systems is about efforts to improve the ability of GISs to interoperate, and has been assembled through a collaboration between academic researchers and the software vendor community under the auspices of the US National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis and the Open GIS Consortium Inc. It includes chapters on the basic principles and the various conceptual frameworks that the research community has developed to think about the problem. Other chapters review a wide range of applications and the experiences of the authors in trying to achieve interoperability at a practical level. Interoperability opens enormous potential for new ways of using GIS and new mechanisms for exchanging data, and these are covered in chapters on information marketplaces, with special reference to geographic information. Institutional arrangements are also likely to be profoundly affected by the trend towards interoperable systems, and nowhere is the impact of interoperability more likely to cause fundamental change than in education, as educators address the needs of a new generation of GIS users with access to a new generation of tools. The book concludes with a series of chapters on education and institutional change.
Interoperating Geographic Information Systems is suitable asa secondary text for graduate level courses in computer science, geography, spatial databases, and interoperability and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry, commerce and government.
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Table of contents (36 chapters)
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Theory and Concepts
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Modeling in Distributed Environments
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Systems and Experiences
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Interoperating Geographic Information Systems
Editors: Michael Goodchild, Max Egenhofer, Robin Fegeas, Cliff Kottman
Series Title: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5189-8
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1999
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-8436-6Published: 28 February 1999
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-7363-6Published: 13 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-5189-8Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0893-3405
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 509
Topics: Data Structures and Information Theory, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Information Storage and Retrieval, Geography, general, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry