Geospatial Web

Accessing vast knowledge repositories and harnessing collective intelligence call for new user interface metaphors. Hailed as the big disruptive innovation of the coming decade, particularly since the introduction of geo-browsing platforms such as Google Earth and NASA World Wind, the Geospatial Web emerges as such a metaphor, and as an enabler of a broad range of unforeseen applications. The Knowledge Management Institute's geospatial investigates methods to “geo-enable” existing knowledge repositories through parsing and coding geospatial references, and different types of geospatial applications in a new media context.

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