Geoportal
A geoportal is a special web portal that enables a search for and access to digital geographic information ( geodata ) and geographic services (display, editing, analysis) via the Internet using a web browser . A Geoportal thus provides an online - Geographic Information System is (GIS) and is an expression of a Web GIS in which the web browser as GIS client acts.
Providers of geographic information such as administrations, companies or organizations use geoportals to make their geodata and metadata accessible and usable for potential users.
Definition in the legal text (Germany)
In the Federal Republic of Germany's geodata access law , the geoportal is defined in Section 3 (6) as follows:
- "Geoportal is an electronic communication, transaction and interaction platform that enables access to spatial data via spatial data services and other network services."
literature
Hansjörg Kutterer, Martin Lenk, Thomas Luckhardt: Geoportal.DE - a joint geodata portal for federal, state and local authorities . In: Kartographische Nachrichten Heft 2/2012, pp. 79–83, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kartographie eV (Hrsg.), Kirschbaum-Verlag, Bonn 2012, ISSN 0022-9164
Web links
Exemplary lists of geoportals without any claim to completeness:
Germany
- Geoportal Germany (Geoportal.DE)
- Geoportal Baden-Württemberg
- Geoportal Bavaria
- Geoportal Berlin
- Brandenburg Geoportal
- Geoportal Bremen
- Geoportal Hamburg
- Geoportal Hessen
- Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Geoportal
- Geoportal Lower Saxony
- Geoportal NRW
- Geoportal Rhineland-Palatinate
- Saarland geoportal
- Geoportal Sachsen Atlas
- Geoportal Saxony-Anhalt
- Schleswig-Holstein geoportal
- Geoportal Thuringia
Austria
- Geoportal of the Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying BEV (Austria)
- Geoportal of the Austrian countries
Switzerland
- Geoportal Bund (Switzerland)
- Geoportal Canton Glarus (Switzerland)
- Geoportal Canton Thurgau (Switzerland)