ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: Emergency situations require fast and flexible response activities. Current geospatial and mapping technologies lack to support dynamic geographic information exchange. These limitations are partially caused by the classical client-server architectures. In our paper we present current research in flexible peer-to-peer architectures and their integration with geospatial technologies that could possibly overcome these limitations. Further investigations and user requirements for such adaptive architectures are done on a study case of Calabria Civil Protection Department. We present some initial results within this paper. They are result of our common work done on the IST WORKPAD project which focuses on the design and development of adaptive software infrastructure for supporting collaborative work in emergency situations. We conclude the paper with open research questions related to per-to-peer GIS architectures and briefly summarise our further work.
1 INTRODUCTION
