The dynamic nature of spatial data infrastructures: A method of descriptive classification

Abstract

Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) is understood and described differently by stakeholders from different disciplines and different administrative/political levels. However, current SDI definitions are individually insuffitcient to describe the dynamic and multi-dimensional nature of SDI. Despite the international interest and activities toward SDI development, SDI remains very much an innovation even among practitioners. There are still doubts regarding the nature and identities of SDI, particularly in connection with how it evolves over time to meet user needs. As a starting point a means to describe SDI's multi-dimensional capacity as an inter- and intra-jurisdictional spatial information ..