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A customer-driven pricing and licensing model is a prerequisite for the business success of EuroDEM. Additionally, the implementation of the pricing and licensing model underpins the goals of INSPIRE and PSI Directives. EuroDEM is a pan-European geoinformation product that covers 40 countries in Europe. National Mapping and Cadastral Agencies own the DEM but EuroGeographics, whose activities fo...

The combination of distributed, heterogeneous spatial data across the borders of geographic information systems and countries is a prerequisite when dealing with cross-border spatial issues, e.g. in the planning or environmental domains. At European level, data sharing is to be be facilitated by establishing a spatial data infrastructure. The INSPIRE Directive, which was adopted for this purpos...

To date, use of the full potential of geo-information is not often applied in the daily practice of policy makers. The main questions explored by this research are: Why is geo-information not widely used in policy and how can this be improved? A conceptual framework was developed to evaluate the use of geo-information. For five cases, the use of geo-information was evaluated by means of this fr...

The National Information Infrastructure (NII) that will evolve in the 1990's and beyond will impact many institutions of life. These include the way we learn and do science, self{caring, access to civil/information infrastructure systems & services, and management & control of manufacturing processes. The future scenario for the NII assumes wireless networks used by walkstations realizing the d...

conclusions it is suggested that the steward of health in iran, the ministry of health, develops an appropriate infrastructure and finally puts a high priority on the implementation of the health information management system for elderly health sector in iran. background there are increasing change and development of information in healthcare systems. given the increase in aging population, man...

Information and communication technology (ICT), information infrastructure (II), geographic information system (GIS), and spatial data infrastructure (SDI) have interdependences. However, there has not been systematic exploration of their dependences, and therefore the nature of their relationships is not precisely known. Here, we use the “Bermuda” metaphor to initiate the discussion on which o...

The past decades have witnessed the rapid growth of heterogeneous geospatial information systems. An important way to share these valuable assets is a spatial data infrastructure (SDI). Recent developments in Web Services and distributed geospatial information services provide a practical approach, Web Portals, to building a SDI. This article describes research, development, and challenges rela...