And how can they be combined with geographic data to help organizations better coordinate their decision making? Semantic spatial searches are more likely to return specific and relevant results for decision-makers, instead of the hundreds to thousands of mixed results returned by a normal internet search.

Many of our critical decisions as a society rely on geospatial data and analysis, including managing infrastructure, social services, emergency response and natural resources. This presentation describes the importance of integrating geospatial and semantic technologies for convergent problem solving and makes a pitch for further funding of this work.