Local to European SDI : mash up or professional, industry strength infrastrcuture?
Murray, Keith and Andrew Trigg
Access and the use of geographic data and information it is growing fast across all parts of the globe. The launch of Google Earth, making mapping and imagery possible on every Internet connected computer has introduced many new users, encouraged by an easy to use and very effective user interface. This has stimulated third parties to build on the Google model by incorporating their own information in a variety of combinations or mash upss. At the same time the take up of sat-nav units by the general public is currently doubling year on year. Never before has the general public had so much digital mapping at their disposal. At the same time the European Community is developing legislation and implementing rules to promote better integration of information across Europe, driven by environmental needs. This is acknowledged as an ambitious task given the diversity of member states, public organisations, data types and structures as well as maintenance regimes and quality levels in evidence across Europe today. At the national, regional and local levels digital mapping, and increasingly geographic information, is extensively used in the transfer land and property, life-critical applications in emergencies, property taxation, asset management, the recording of social events of all kinds (crime, health, births, housing conditions etc) to support investment in deprived or needy areas and so on.
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