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Indexing Geographic Information Using the Domain Name System
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Fontanella, Shaun
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1345531139
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2012, Master of Science, Ohio State University, Environment and Natural Resources.
Abstract
There is a large amount of geographic information (GI) being collected every day all over the world. Governments, the traditional collectors of GI, have a multitude of institutional barriers preventing them from being able to nimbly collect and index GI. This thesis proposes a new and open system that indexes GI using an index built on top of the already ubiquitous Domain Name System called Geographic Domain Name System (GDNS). The GDNS uses a combination of the latitude and longitude of the centroid of a parcel to create a DNS hostname. This hostname points to the source of authoritative data on the internet. A web map acts as a visual search device of the hostnames. A design science research methodology is used to build and critique the thesis software artifacts.
Committee
Earl Epstein, PhD (Advisor)
Ola Ahlqvist, PhD (Committee Member)
Brian Slater, PhD (Committee Member)
Pages
66 p.
Subject Headings
Geographic Information Science
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Geography
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Information Science
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Information Systems
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Information Technology
Keywords
DNS
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Geographic Information
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Domain Name System
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GDNS
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Fontanella, S. (2012).
Indexing Geographic Information Using the Domain Name System
[Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1345531139
APA Style (7th edition)
Fontanella, Shaun.
Indexing Geographic Information Using the Domain Name System.
2012. Ohio State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1345531139.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Fontanella, Shaun. "Indexing Geographic Information Using the Domain Name System." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1345531139
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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