Geo Portal
A geoportal is a type of web portal used to find and access geographic information (geospatial information) and associated geographic services (display, editing, analysis, etc.) via the Internet. Geoportals are important for effective use of geographic information systems (GIS) and a key element of Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI).
Geographic information providers, including government agencies and commercial sources, use geoportals to publish descriptions (geospatial metadata) of their geographic information. Geographic information consumers, professional or casual, use geoportals to search and access the information they need. Thus geoportals serve an increasingly important role in the sharing of geographic information and can avoid duplicated efforts, inconsistencies, delays, confusion, and wasted resources (Wikipedia, 2012) [1].
External links
International Geoportals
National Geoportals
- Geoportal Patrimonio Natural y de la Biodiversidad del Estado español (Spain)
- Geoportal Spain is Culture (Spain)
- Geoportal Pueblos Arquitectura Negra Guadalajara (Spain)
- Geoportal hotelmapspain-madrid (Spain)
- Geoportal Campiña de Jerez (Spain)
- Geoportal Madrid (Spain)
- IDE Andorra (Andorra)
- Geoportal de Chile (Chile)
- Geoportal (Croatia)
- Geodata-info (Denmark)
- Geoportal (Finland)
- Geoportail (France)
- GeoVisitGuatemala (Guatemala)
- India NSDI Portal (India)
- Portale Cartografico Nazionale (Italy)
- Geoportal (Lithuania)
- Geoportal (Luxembourg)
- UNSDI Netherlands GeoNetwork portal (Netherlands)
- Geospatial Data Service Centre (Netherlands)
- GeoNorge (Norway)
- Geoportal (Poland)
- SNIG (Portugal)
- Geoportal (Serbia)
- IDEE (Spain)
- Geoportal Bund (Switzerland)
- UK GeoPortal (UK)
- Go-Geo! (UK)
- Data.gov (USA)
- Geospatial Platform (USA)
- NSDI Clearinghouse Network (USA)
State and Province Geoportals
- Abu Dhabi Spatial Data Infrastructure (Abu Dhabi,UAE)
- GeoStor (Arkansas, USA)
- CaSIL, California Spatial Information Library, USA
- IDEC, Spatial Data Infrastructure of Catalonia, Spain
- New Mexico Resource GIS, USA
- Geoportal Rhineland Palatinate, Germany
Theme Geoportals
References
- ↑ Wikipedia, 2012. [online] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoportal
