2009/01/01 by Lars Harrie, Harrie, Lars, Heiner Stuckenschmidt +1
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Data Management and Algorithms #Geographic Information Systems Studies #Geopertals #Semantic Web and Ontologies #integration #semantic technologies
paper · doi:10.4230/dagsemproc.09161.4
openalex publication_date 2009/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Several countries are currently working on setting up geoportals as part of their national spatial data infrastructure (SDI) (and this is also a requirement of the Inspire initiative). A key ability of these geoportals is that the user should be able to view (and download) data from several sources from one access point. This will certainly make the access to geospatial data easier. However, there are also cartographic and semantic challenges that have to be solved. In this discussion group we discussed some topics concerning both download services and view services and some possible solutions.