Open Questions
The basic idea of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) for map
production sounds great and e.g. may help to keep storage requirements
low. But before improvidently changing to SOA infrastructures for map
production, its use, restrictions and future potential should be
explored. Therefore open questions have to be answered and field reports
should be exchanged. In this book different stakeholders, reaching from
national mapping agencies to industries, standardisation bodies to NGOs
and research institutions to application providers deal with questions
of SOA in map production and geobusiness.