A semantic web map mediation service
MARK N. GAHEGAN, Will Smart, Sina Masoud-Ansari, Brandon Whitehead · 2011
We describe a semantically-based Web Map Mediation Service (WMMS) that allows researchers to define, capture and reuse semantic relationships between map categories, via a set of Web Services. A map can then be viewed according to different taxonomies or legends, whose categories have been semantically related to those native to the map. Such 'mappings' or 'mediation schema' can be constructed directly between maps, or can utilise an independent 'master schema' such as an application ontology, to which map categories are aligned.