Web/Cloud Based Mapping and Geoinformation

Dear Colleagues,

Recent advances in the field of web- and cloud-based mapping and geoservices is increasing the demand for more, better, and smarter integrated geoinformation and knowledge to support a diversity of users and applications. Web mapping and web GIS have developed from a simple hyper-linked image, like the Xerox PARC map server, to a complex web of geospatial services and information feeding into online web maps and web GIS applications. The challenge is how to discover, integrate, manipulate and present this geoinformation at the appropriate level to users/applications in an environment that comprises GIS, mobile mapping, digital virtual globes, volunteered geographic information, sensor networks, etc.

As web- and cloud-based geoinformation and geoservices become easier to access by the global community of users, the increasing challenge is to focus the provision of information towards the context of users and applications. This means that we need to build on our knowledge and understanding of web and cloud based architectures, geoweb semantics and ontologies, geospatial analytics, big data parallel geoprocessing, multidimensional geovisualisation, collaborative virtual geospatial environments, dynamic contextualised behaviour, etc. The agenda is about providing the right information to the right people at the right time for the right decision.

Prof. Bert Veenendaal
Prof. Dr. Maria Antonia Brovelli
Dr. Serena Coetzee
Dr. Peter Mooney
Guest Editors

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