This interesting comver of the Time Magazine has a lot of truth in it. They selected “You” as person of the year in 2006, because “You” control the Information Age and this is what Web 2.0 is all about. And also this should be true for the GeoWeb. GeoWeb 2.0 should allow the user to control how people use Geographic Information and which Geographic Information is important to them. Therefore formats, rules and presentation style should be controled by the users.
User generated content which Geographic Information is available though the Internet. There are several great services out there which are defined by the term GeoWeb 2.0. Geographic data can mixed from different data sources and also combined with non-geographic data creating useful information for support in the decision process. Map-Mashups or Maplets are a term where different datasources can be combined and represented in a single map. Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) allow the creation of interesting services in different fields. Lets see whats comming out in the next few months or years.
Of course you can post different services which already exist and go in the direction of GeoWeb 2.0
Written and submitted from Home, using my 802.11g WiFi network.
