Description

The book "Spatial Enablement in a Smart World", comprising 13 selected fully refereed papers submitted to the GSDI 15 World Conference held in Taipei, Taiwan, 29 November to 2 December 2016 is now available for online download here (PDF).

Chapter 1: Spatial Enablement in a Smart World
PART ONE : SDI Journey: Examples and Case Studies
Chapter 2: Convergence of Spatial Data Infrastructure and Data Revolution
Chapter 3: Blueprint for the STIG1.0 – setting the performance indicators
Chapter 4: Open Spatial Data Infrastructures for the Sustainable Development of the Extractives Sector: Promises and Challenges
Chapter 5: Spatial Data Infrastructure in New Brunswick, Canada: Twenty Years on the Web
Chapter 6: Urban Analytics Data Infrastructure: Critical SDI for Urban Management in Australia
Chapter 7: The Theory versus the Reality of Alignment between EGov and SDI in Pakistan
Chapter 8: Democratization of Key Public Sector Information in Zimbabwe. The Road towards Open Information Access?
PART TWO : Spatial Enablement: Applications and Data Platforms
Chapter 9: The Impact of Spatial Enablement and Visualization on Business Enterprise Databases - What your data have been trying to tell you
Chapter 10: Smart Disaster Communities: Building a Global Disaster Management Platform
Chapter 11: Application of the Remote Sensing and Geo-spatial Technology in Terrain Analysis and Terrain Classification in Context of Creation of SDI for Marine & Coastal Regions
Chapter 12: Urban Real Property Loss Relief in the Scope of Disaster Governance
Chapter 13: Assessing the quality of building footprints on OpenStreetMap: a case study in Taiwan
Chapter 14: Applying Geographic Names Information Service in High School Education of Taiwan