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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. Updates and additional resources are available at www.geospatialweb.com.

Computer Science. --- Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet). --- Models and Principles. --- Geographical Information Systems/Cartography. --- Multimedia Information Systems. --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- Information Storage and Retrieval. --- Computer science. --- Information storage and retrieval systems. --- Information systems. --- Multimedia systems. --- Geographical information systems. --- Informatique --- Systèmes d'information --- Multimédia --- Noms géographiques --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Electronic books. -- local. --- Geographic information systems. --- Internet. --- Geographic information systems --- Internet --- Geography-General --- Computer Science --- Geography --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- DARPA Internet --- Internet (Computer network) --- Geographical information systems --- GIS (Information systems) --- Popular works. --- Computers. --- Multimedia information systems. --- User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Popular Science. --- Popular Computer Science. --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet). --- Informatics --- Science --- Interfaces, User (Computer systems) --- Human-machine systems --- Human-computer interaction --- Computer-based multimedia information systems --- Multimedia computing --- Multimedia information systems --- Multimedia knowledge systems --- Automatic computers --- Automatic data processors --- Computer hardware --- Computing machines (Computers) --- Electronic brains --- Electronic calculating-machines --- Electronic computers --- Hardware, Computer --- Computer systems --- Cybernetics --- Machine theory --- Calculators --- Cyberspace --- Wide area networks (Computer networks) --- World Wide Web --- Application software. --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software