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Increasing the Fitness of OGC-Compliant Web Map Services for the Web 2.0

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Google Maps and Google Earth are very popular web mapping services but they are not open and not OGC-compliant. The question arises why this is not the case. One reason is that commercial data providers require a tight coupling between the provided maps and additional supplements like advertisements. Another answer to this question is the missing support of mashups that become more and more popular with using Google Maps. This paper presents several approaches to overcome these deficits of OGC-compliant web mapping services. The most promising solutions are integrated into an architecture for a Web 2.0 map server and are implemented by a prototype. Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is one essential technology within this architecture. By using such approach, the current need for closed systems like Google Earth or Google Maps may diminish.

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  1. Institute for Applied Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics (IAPG), FH Oldenburg/Ostfriesland Wilhelmshaven (University of Applied Sciences), Ofener Straße 16/19, D-26121, Oldenburg, Germany

    Thomas Brinkhoff

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  1. Department of Geography, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstr. 190, CH-8057, Zürich, Switzerland

    Sara Irina Fabrikant

  2. Wageningen UR Centre for Geo-Information, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Monica Wachowicz

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Brinkhoff, T. (2007). Increasing the Fitness of OGC-Compliant Web Map Services for the Web 2.0. In: Fabrikant, S.I., Wachowicz, M. (eds) The European Information Society. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72385-1_15

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