TY - CHAP
T1 - Geoweb
AU - Bishop, Wade
AU - Grubesic, Anthony
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This chapter reviews the technology, data, and implications related to the Geospatial Web (Geoweb). The unprecedented volume of geographic information (GI) being created, made available, editable, and distributable presents challenges and opportunities for information professionals related to GI access and use. Usability, functionality, and accessibility issues for web-based mapping applications and location-based mobile applications provide one stream of research for Information Science. The Geoweb, as both the cyberinfrastructure and the information space for GI, requires some re-framing of the various resources that support discovery. The contextualization of the user roles, communities, and GI types provide other new avenues of research in Information Science related to human information seeking behavior and the digital curation of all types of information.
AB - This chapter reviews the technology, data, and implications related to the Geospatial Web (Geoweb). The unprecedented volume of geographic information (GI) being created, made available, editable, and distributable presents challenges and opportunities for information professionals related to GI access and use. Usability, functionality, and accessibility issues for web-based mapping applications and location-based mobile applications provide one stream of research for Information Science. The Geoweb, as both the cyberinfrastructure and the information space for GI, requires some re-framing of the various resources that support discovery. The contextualization of the user roles, communities, and GI types provide other new avenues of research in Information Science related to human information seeking behavior and the digital curation of all types of information.
KW - Equitable access
KW - Geographic information
KW - Geographic information system
KW - Global position system
KW - United states geological survey
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-22789-4_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-22789-4_6
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85059068343
T3 - Springer Geography
SP - 105
EP - 123
BT - Springer Geography
PB - Springer
ER -