The Geospatial Web: How Geobrowsers, Social Software and the Web 2.0 are Shaping the Network Society

The most important attribute of geospatial platforms is their unique potential to aggregate a multitude of public and private geographic data sets, providing access to data from government agencies, industry and the general public. NASA and other organizations have a wealth of planetary science data – representing the output from thousands of satellites in earth—orbit, and from dozens of costly missions to other planets. Benefits derived from both the data and visual interfaces to access th...