ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how Ordnance Survey is promoting the use of geographic information (GI) within the information economy through the use of Semantic Web technologies. It details the importance of GI to the general task of information integration and how the development of spatial information infrastructures that are reliant on standards alone may limit the adoption of GI by the wider information industry. We believe that Semantic Web technologies can help to overcome the limitations of a standards-only approach, though we also highlight the challenges that are faced in the development of this immature technology. Lastly, our chapter describes the research currently being conducted to overcome some of these limitations.
