The EcoGeo Cookbook for the Assessment of Geographic Information Value

Abstract

The EcoGeo II project has, as its main goal, the establishment of an economic model to evaluate geographic information (GI). The first phase of the EcoGeo Project has provided a visual representation, called Socioscope, of the overall flows of geospatial data between the main private and public stakeholders of the geomatic sector in the province of Quebec (Canada). From this foundation, EcoGeo Phase II was launched in 2008 with several goals. The first goal was to analyze the most important existing research and approaches to evaluate the economic value of the GI sector. The results show that the value chain concept is, in theory, one of the most suitable approaches that can be adapted to assess GI value. However, it is also one of the most complex due to the number of variables involved with how are GI produced and used within and between organizations. Our second goal was to define the basis or conventions for evaluating GI and, more specifically, to develop a list of parameters which need to be considered for evaluating GI. We defined a set of guidelines that we called the EcoGeo cookbook, which aims at identifying, listing and describing the most ∗ This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non commercial Works 3.0

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