{"product_id":"9781461373636","title":"Interoperating Geographic Information Systems","description":"\u003ch1\u003eInteroperating Geographic Information Systems\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eGoodchild, Michael; Egenhofer, Max J.; Fegeas, Robin; Kottman, Cliff\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeographic information systems have developed rapidly in the  past decade, and are now a major class of software, with applications  that include infrastructure maintenance, resource management,  agriculture, Earth science, and planning. But a lack of standards has  led to a general inability for one GIS to interoperate with another.  It is difficult for one GIS to share data with another, or for people  trained on one system to adapt easily to the commands and user  interface of another. Failure to interoperate is a problem at many  levels, ranging from the purely technical to the semantic and the  institutional. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cem\u003eInteroperating Geographic Information Systems\u003c\/em\u003e is about efforts  to improve the ability of GISs to interoperate, and has been assembled  through a collaboration between academic researchers and the software  vendor community under the auspices of the US National Center for  Geographic Information and Analysis and the Open GIS Consortium Inc.  It includes chapters on the basic principles and the various  conceptual frameworks that the research community has developed to  think about the problem. Other chapters review a wide range of  applications and the experiences of the authors in trying to achieve  interoperability at a practical level. Interoperability opens enormous  potential for new ways of using GIS and new mechanisms for exchanging  data, and these are covered in chapters on information marketplaces,  with special reference to geographic information. Institutional  arrangements are also likely to be profoundly affected by the trend  towards interoperable systems, and nowhere is the impact of  interoperability more likely to cause fundamental change than in  education, as educators address the needs of a new generation of GIS  users with access to a new generation of tools. The book concludes  with a series of chapters on education and institutional change. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cem\u003eInteroperating Geographic Information Systems\u003c\/em\u003e is suitable asa  secondary text for graduate level courses in computer science,  geography, spatial databases, and interoperability and as a reference  for researchers and practitioners in industry, commerce and  government.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2012-10-13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781461373636\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-1-4615-5189-8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235.0cm x155.0cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 509.0\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44358975062156,"sku":"9781461373636","price":197.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781461373636.jpg?v=1767147511","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781461373636","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}