Download or read book Creating Spatial Information Infrastructures written by Peter van Oosterom and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2008-04-23 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initiatives, such as INSPIRE and the US DHS Geospatial Data Model, are working to develop a rich set of standards that will create harmonized models and themes for the spatial information infrastructure. However, this is only the first step. Semantically meaningful models must still be developed in order to stimulate interoperability. Creatin