The Geospatial Web – How Geobrowsers, Social Software and the Web 2.0 are Shaping the Network Society
Arno Scharl and Klaus TochtermannAdvanced Information and Knowledge Processing SeriesSpringerLondonApril 2007ISBN 1-84628-826-6294 pp.€80.20
The Geospatial Web will have a profound impact on managing knowledge,structuring workflows within and across organizations, and communicating with like-minded individuals in virtual communities. The enabling technologies for the Geospatial Web are geobrowsers such as NASA World Wind, Google Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth. These three-dimensional platforms not only reveal the geographic distribution of web resources and services, but also bring together people of similar interests, browsing behavior, or geographic location.
This edited volume describes information services and collaborative tools built on top of geobrowsers, and investigates the environmental, social and economic impacts of geospatial applications. Environmental issues receive particular attention. The authors cover a broad range of applications from natural hazard exposure assessment to mapping soil and air quality, customized fire alerts, disaster and crisis management, and the monitoring of environmental issues in news coverage.
The book’s web site at: www.geospatialweb.com provides the preface and foreword,table of contents, chapter abstracts, author biographies, and a sample chapter on “Media Platforms for Managing Geotagged Knowledge Repositories”.
