GI Marketplaces-Tools of new business models in the GI market

Geographic information is needed for planning and decision making everywhere. But it is too rarely sold and used. Technical, human, organizational, and institutional services have to be added to the raw material of geographic data in order to create requested products. For adding these services, there is a need of new business models for the cooperation in geospatial value chains, and an extended use of the medium Internet by e-commerce and e-business. This paper identifies electronic marketplaces for geographic information as main components of new business models for an expanding market for geographic information.