GeoInformatica)

Abstract: The use and sale of geographic information lags behind its potential and the expected market growth. Mostly the products of the GI market consist of data sets. We propose the addition of technical, human, organizational, and institutional services to the raw material of geographic data. The integration of data and services to information services has to be executed by a networked cooperation of all players of geospatial value chains. This requires networked business models, and marketplaces for geographic information as supporting tools. Based on a scenario we investigate how GI marketplaces can mediate and support the process of generating information services. Results of this paper are concepts for three crucial issues of business networks: i. What services (intermediate products) are required for generating information services (end products)? ii. What are the services a GI marketplace needs to provide in order to support the generation of information services? iii. How does pricing work within business networks?