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Participating on the geoweb : evaluating the effectiveness of the geoweb for supporting participation in environmental governance issues in the Okanagan valley of British Columbia

open access: closed, 2010
The Geospatial Web (Geoweb) is taking an increasingly important role as a tool for supporting participation in governance. For the purposes of this study, web-based participatory tools, including a web portal, forums, blogs and a discussion map application now called Geolive, were developed to support collaborative planning efforts on environmental ...
Patrick M. Allen
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Architekturmodelle für Geoweb-Anwendungen

HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik, 2010
Viele Webanwendungen stehen vor der Herausforderung, Funktionalitaten geografischer Informationssysteme (GIS) zu integrieren. Dieser Beitrag beschreibt drei Modelle von Softwarearchitekturen und wie Web-/Enterprise-Anwendungen mit GIS-Funktionalitaten erweitert werden konnen.
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GeoWeb on mobile internet

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computing for Geospatial Research & Applications - COM.Geo '11, 2011
Geospatial data accessible on the web has become common place and transformative. The GeoWeb allows us to view geographic information about any location on the planet and to make plans based on this. Planning routes for travel using the GeoWeb has become highly advanced enabled by open standards.
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Situating the geoweb in political economy

Progress in Human Geography, 2011
The geoweb represents a profound shift within regimes of the production, dissemination, and institutionalization of geographic information. Going beyond early geographic accounts of the geoweb that engage it as an extension of Web 2.0, this paper situates the emergence of the geoweb within the neoliberal political economic restructuring of the state ...
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GIS as Media Through the Geoweb

2015
This chapter first traces the evolution of GIS from its earlier focus on automated cartography (organizing geospatial information) to its current status as media, with an emphasis on the geoweb (organizing information geospatially). Using Adams’ (2009) tetradic framework on geographies of media, this chapter then presents a preliminary analysis on ...
Bo Zhao, Daniel Z. Sui
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GeoWeb 2.0 applications could support the Geodesign process

Rev. Int. Géomatique, 2019
The emergence of Web 2.0 is materialized by new technologies (APIs, Ajax, etc.), by new practices (mashup, geotagging, etc.) an, by new tools (wiki, blog, etc.). It is primarily based on the principle of participation and collaboration.
Wided Batita
semanticscholar   +1 more source

NJ-GeoWeb, GIS for Watershed Management [PDF]

open access: possibleInternational Symposium on Environmental Protection and Planning: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) Applications Proceedings Book, 2012
Freshwater resources in New Jersey are deteriorating and require quality assessment, which can be costly in time, material and human resources. Strategies of the New Jersey Division of Watershed Management are moving in the direction of citizen action, promoted by service learning programs for water assessment.
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Motivations driving government adoption of the Geoweb

GeoJournal, 2011
Recent increases in the use of Web 2.0 and Geoweb technologies by citizens have led many governments to investigate the adoption of these technologies. This research examines the motivations driving multiple levels of government in Quebec, Canada to consider the adoption of the Geoweb within a context of rural development.
Peter Johnson, Renee Sieber
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Beyond the geotag: situating ‘big data’ and leveraging the potential of the geoweb

Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 2013
This article presents an overview and initial results of a geoweb analysis designed to provide the foundation for a continued discussion of the potential impacts of ‘big data’ for the practice of critical human geography. While Haklay's (2012) observation that social media content is generated by a small number of ‘outliers’ is correct, we explore ...
J. Crampton   +6 more
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Heuristic Evaluation of Usability of GeoWeb Sites

2008
Usability of software belongs today to the top priorities of both managers and users of information technologies because the dependency of the majority of mankind activities on information and communication technologies in general is increasing rapidly.
Jitka Komarkova   +2 more
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