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Interoperating Geographic Information Systems (Hardcover, 1999 ed.)
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Interoperating Geographic Information Systems (Hardcover, 1999 ed.)
Series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, 495
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Geographic information systems have developed rapidly in the past
decade, and are now a major class of software, with applications
that include infrastructure maintenance, resource management,
agriculture, Earth science, and planning. But a lack of standards
has led to a general inability for one GIS to interoperate with
another. It is difficult for one GIS to share data with another, or
for people trained on one system to adapt easily to the commands
and user interface of another. Failure to interoperate is a problem
at many levels, ranging from the purely technical to the semantic
and the institutional. 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 as a 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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