Geosemantic web standards for the spatial information infrastructure nice to have or hopeless without?

Creating Spatial Information Infrastructures: Towards the Spatial Semantic Web

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 119-128

  Lieberman, Joshua ^a   Goad, Chris ^b  

^a Traverse Technologies Inc   (United States)

^b Palatial Inc   (United States)

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