Visualising spatial web service growth across Europe
Sampo Savolainen, Ilkka Rinne · 2015
Service quality is essential for broadening the adoption and use of data via APIs and online services. The success of any software that use these services will be dependent on the quality the services it uses. Web services are provided by a myriad of different organisations and service providers with different resources and technical capabilities, which inevitably raises the question whether a developer interested in the services can trust them or not. Availability of such services is a crucial factor in service quality: it measures how reliable a service is under normal conditions. If a service is not available, the service is of no use regardless of how good quality data it may serve when functional. Therefore it can be argued that availability is the most important measure of service quality. It is however a non-trivial task to determine the level of availability.