Offers a comprehensive introduction to decentralized map production
Includes chapters on standardization initiatives spearheaded by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
Features a special chapter on the European spatial data infrastructure, providing essential background information on the initial requirements and challenges
Includes a chapter addressing the implementation of the semantic web in geoinformatics
Gathers numerous contributions that report on using big data for geospatial visualizationDescribes recent efforts in statistical geospatial framework integration