GeoMarkt.NRW. An E-Commerce platform for geospatial information and services

The geospatial information market is an "Emerging Market" and of special interest for the private sector as well as for the public hand. Therefore, the German state North-Rhine Westphalia has launched its Geodata Infrastructure (GDI NRW) initiative which aims to set up a technical and organisational infrastructure for a business-to-business geo data market. Within GDI NRW GeoMarkt. NRW is a central component for business-to-business commerce to cope with the complexities of web-based trading of geo information. Hence, GeoMarkt. NRW is designed as a generic platform for the implementation of marketplaces for different user groups.