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GI_Forum 2015, Volume 3Journal for Geographic Information Science
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GI_Forum 2015, Volume 3, pp. 20-29, 2015/06/25
Journal for Geographic Information Science
Geospatial Minds for Society
The emergence of cloud-GIS is seen as a way of overcoming the limitations of former technical solutions aimed at spatial data handling. While the effect of cloud computing has been addressed in the existing literature, our understanding of the impact of the cloud-based GIS of utility infrastructure, and particularly the ways of measuring it, remains limited. This study reports the indicators suitable for the impact assessment of the cloud-based registry of utility infrastructure from the viewpoints of different stakeholders, taking into account three types of impact: economic, environmental, and social.