![]() ![]() GeoWeb and more specifically geospatial services and applications have provided cartography with new features and an access to the 2 billion Internet users (Sample et al. As a result, the GeoWeb has become a collective platform progressively built on the practices, tools and data generated by the users, and where location-based content can be shared. On the one hand, spatial technologies and practices converge and combine to achieve complementarity, and on the other hand the usage of the Web develops into a more mature type of socialisation based upon open networks, collaborative work, information sharing and global actions (Tapscott and Williams 2007). By its very nature, it is participatory, because it offers dynamic and interactive maps. ![]() Today’s GeoWeb relies on the Web 2.0 infrastructure, and is core to its organization. This democratisation of digital cartography is partly due to the development of the GeoWeb (Herring 1994), which refers to the merging of the Web with geospatial technologies and geographic information. The production of maps and geographic information is no longer exclusive to professionals. The development of the information and communication technologies (ICT), and more specifically of the Internet, has brought major digital changes that revolutionized the concept and use of maps. ![]()
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