Design Principles of Geospatial Information System in the Internet with Emphasis on Wiki-Based Environments

Recent promotions in Web2.0 form a new information system so called volunteer information system. On these systems information generated and shared by the users. Users in these systems have a general meaning that in most cases lack in the necessary training about intelligence. Wikis are particular kind of such systems which are so simple and open in creation and editing. This paper deals with the volunteered geospatial information system and specially wiki environment as a context for implementation of these systems. The concept such as users, data source, data types, license and designprinciples of wiki environment will be discussed and at the end the main principle of one implemented system would be extracted.