STUDY OF POSSIBILITIES OF WEB SERVICES FOR OBTAINING GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES FROM INDIRECT POSITION FROM INFORMATION IN CZECH LANGUAGE ON THE INTERNET

9th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference - SGEM2009, www.sgem.org, SGEM2009 Conference Proceedings/ ISBN 10: 954-91818-1-2, June 14-19, 2009, Vol. 2, 147-150 pp

ABSTRACT

The web content grows annually by a geometric progression. Internet pages provide
information not only through the markup language (X)HTML, which is used to create
Web pages, but often in many different other formats and also web services. One task of
this project is to make detail analysis of existing web services for obtaining the
geographical coordinates of the given information and take advantage of them to extract
spatial information from web pages. Positive results of this analysis in Czech
information on the Internet could be a major alternative source of spatial data available
free for all Czech users.

Keywords: GIS, Web, Web services, Geocoding