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Semantic Markup For Geographic Web Maps In Html, Malte Reißig
Semantic Markup For Geographic Web Maps In Html, Malte Reißig
Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings
In the recent years more and more geographical web maps have been developed and published on the Open Web Platform. Technically this has turned all variants of these maps into documents of the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) making them appear to us naturally as graph-like and semi-structured data. In this dispute with geographical web maps and HTML we draw on the notion of so called “map mashups”. Requiring an alternative model and definition of what such a map is, our research allows us to build and refine supportive technology which helps us in analyzing and interpreting information map makers code …