The Geospatial Web: New Springer Book Available May 2007
Vlad Tanasescu
How Geobrowsers, Social Software and
the Web 2.0 are Shaping the Network Society
Arno Scharl, Klaus Tochtermann (Eds.)
Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing Series
2007, London: Springer, ISBN 1-84628-826-6
<a href="www.geospatialweb.com">www.geospatialweb.com</a>
With a Foreword by Patrick J. Hogan, Program Manager of NASA World
Wind
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 geo-browsers such as
NASA World Wind, Google Earth and Microsoft Live Local 3D. These three-
dimensional platforms revolutionize the production and consumption of
media products. They 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 book summarizes the latest research on the Geospatial Web's
technical foundations, describes information services and
collaborative tools built on top of geo-browsers, and investigates the
environmental, social and economic impacts of geospatial applications.
The role of contextual knowledge in shaping the emerging network
society deserves particular attention. By integrating geospatial and
semantic technology, such contextual knowledge can be extracted
automatically - for example, when processing Web documents to identify
relevant content for customized news services.
Presenting 25 chapters from renowned international experts, this
edited volume will be invaluable to scientists, students,
practitioners, and all those interested in the emerging field of
geospatial Web technology.