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Information Services, Geography

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GIService; GIS; Geographic information systems; Geographic information sciences; Services; Mash-ups; Location‐based services

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Geographic information is knowledge acquired through processing geographically referenced data. Geographic information services are (1) functionality provided by a software entity through its interfaces defined as named sets of operations and, (2) provisions of information generated from geospatial data. The development of geographic information services is closely related to distributed object technology and the Internet. It represents a major step to enable easy access to geographic information and geo‐processing technology.

From software development perspectives, geographic information services represent a vertical domain of information services where many IT service components are combined to form information applications. GI-Service components are self‐contained, self‐describing, and reusable software objects that can be published,...

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  1. Department of Geography, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, USA

    Bin Li

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    Shashi Shekhar (McKnight Distinguished University Professor) (McKnight Distinguished University Professor)

  2. Management Science and Information Systems Department, Rutgers Business School Newark and New Brunswick Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA

    Hui Xiong (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)

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Li, B. (2008). Information Services, Geography. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35973-1_637

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