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Indexing Geographic Information Using the Domain Name System

Fontanella, Shaun

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2012, Master of Science, Ohio State University, Environment and Natural Resources.
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.
Earl Epstein, PhD (Advisor)
Ola Ahlqvist, PhD (Committee Member)
Brian Slater, PhD (Committee Member)
66 p.

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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)