Matthieu Noucher1
, Françoise Gourmelon2,
Christophe Claramunt3
Revue Internationale de Géomatique, Vol.29, No.1, pp. 9-30, 2019, DOI:10.3166/rig.2019.00074
Abstract Extensive uses of geographic information generate a data deluge on many Web
infrastructures. Monitoring and analyzing the content of these platforms is still a research
challenge because these can be considered as very dynamic informational and algorithmic black
boxes. The concept of “geographical information observatory” appears as an appropriate mean
to monitor, analyze and then provide a better understanding of the evolution of the volume and
flows of the spatial data available on a specific web infrastructure. Nevertheless, its
implementation raises several methodological questions discussed in this paper, starting from
the experimentation of a diachronic data observation of French Spatial… More >
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