The availability of open data and of tools to create visualizations on top of these open
datasets have led to an ever-growing amount of geovisualizations on the Web. There is thus …

With the advancement of GIS technology since its inception in 1960's, many educational
institutions, government departments, public/private sectors and individuals have started its …

Abstract The Linked Data paradigm has made significant inroads into research and practice
around spatial information and it is time to reflect on what this means for GIScience …

Efforts to establish Pakistan's National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) have been
underway for the past 15 years, and therefore it is necessary to gauge the current progress …

Open data initiatives are playing an important role in current city governments. Despite more
data being made open, few studies have looked into barriers to open geographic data reuse …

Geospatial data are produced by several organizations located at various places, and that is
clearly a distributed environment. Many technical and institutional issues need to be …

Modern disaster reporting is becoming increasingly sophisticated with the ready access to
social media and user-friendly online map** tools. Citizen engagement in location …

This chapter considers the impacts of innovations in communications and information
technology on the nature of spatial data infrastructure (SDI). It examines the changes that …

Over the last 25 years, the potential benefits of sharing and reusing geographic information
for national development programs have led many countries to establish their own national …

Many of today's infrastructures, such as railways and electricity utilities, originate from the
1800s and evolved into public services with centralized bureaucratic operations subject to …