Title
Worldwide (status, development and) impact assessment of geoportals
Author
Crompvoets, J (External organisation)
Bregt, AK (External organisation)
de Bree, F (External organisation)
van Oort, P (External organisation)
van Loenen, B. (TU Delft OLD Geo-information and Land Development)
Rajabifard, A (External organisation)
Williamson, IP (TU Delft OLD Geo-information and Land Development)
Contributor
Abdelaal, A (editor)
Khalifa, Al (editor)
Shaker, A (editor)
Radwan, MM (editor)
Elghazaly, S (editor)
Abdel-Aziz, Y (editor)
Date
2005
Abstract
At this moment, numerous (catalogue) geoportals have been established and it is expected that many more geoportals will be implemented in the future. To the best of our knowledge, not many status, development and impact assessment studies have been performed with regard to all these initiatives (certainly not on a worldwide scale). It is very important to know what the main developments and impacts of these facilities are to justify all costs, efforts and time to implement these geoportals and to improve their effectiveness and efficiency. For this reason, a survey was undertaken (November 2003 – April 2004) in order
to assess the worldwide (status, developments and) impacts. The survey consisted of 21 questions and was sent to all known geoportal coordinators. In total 428 coordinators were contacted.
105 coordinators completed the survey. They were mainly coordinating international, national/federal and state geoportals in Europe, Australia and USA/Canada (only a few were coordinating Caribbean, African and Asian ones). The results were aggregated for the whole world.
The main results are that the implementation of geoportals is a global activity, that the use of geoportals and spatial data will increase, that more services will be provided and new services will be introduced within the next 5 years. As the main drawbacks for implementation are considered: institutional problems, lack of specialized data managers and data standardization. Moreover, it seems that geoportals (of the developed world) have a positive impact on society. These impacts are mainly economic in nature.
Subject
geoportals
assessment
portals
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Publisher
International Federation of Surveyors (FIG), Frederiksberg
ISBN
87-90907-43-4
Source
Proceedings of the FIG Working Week 2005 and 8th International Conference on the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI-8) 'From Pharaohs to Geoinformatics'
Event
Cairo, 2005-04-16 → 2005-04-21, Frederiksberg
Part of collection
Institutional Repository
Document type
conference paper
Rights
© 2005 J Crompvoets, AK Bregt, F de Bree, P van Oort, B. van Loenen, A Rajabifard, IP Williamson