Background

A Geoportal is a consolidated and centralized web-based digital platform that provides an online geo information management system and consists of spatial data sharing tools to access and view different data and maps. It is a type of web portal used to find and access geographic information (geospatial information) and associated geographic services (display, editing, analysis, etc.) via the internet. Geoportals provide geospatial service access to distributed data systems featuring maps, data downloads and management. Some Geoportals can also offer online analysis and processing of datasets and dynamic data visualization tools. The system features in a Geoportal can be customized as per the requirements and it provides a better dissemination solution for the huge amount of data to its users. Geoportal applications are considered as a single point of access to geospatial information where metadata are arranged and users can view and manage the datasets. Developing an integrated Geoportal in an organization with various working divisions under it can be beneficial in maintaining the data integrity, enabling easy search and discovery of the datasets, reducing time and redundancy of data production, data publishing, efficient purchase and downloading of data and monitoring and security of metadata and system functionalities.