Geospatial Semantic Web

Abstract

The large volume of geospatial data available on the Web opens up unprecedented opportunities for data access and data interchange, facilitating the design of new geospatial applications and claiming for the redesign of traditional ones. However, to interoperate, geospatial applications must be able to locate and access the data sources, and agree both on the syntax and on the semantics of the data that flow between them. Achieving interoperability is more difficult in this case simply because geospatial data are much more complex than conventional data, with respect to both syntax and semantics.