Broker mediated geospatial information service including relative ranking data

A method for providing a geospatial information service in a broker-mediated geospatial information service environment, comprising:

• receiving at a broker system a request from a requester, the request including search criteria for returning information based on processing of geospatial information to the requester;
• determining a plurality of process-dataset solutions, each process-dataset solution comprising a process and a dataset to be processed thereby so as to perform a geospatial information service for returning geospatial information to the requester in accordance with the search criteria;
• obtaining a value indicator for being provided to the requestor in association with an identification of each one of the plurality of process-dataset solutions;
• and, providing information from the broker system to the requestor for identifying each process-dataset solution of the determined plurality of process-data set solutions, and for providing the value indicator associated with each process-dataset solution of the plurality of process-dataset solutions.

A method for providing a geospatial information service in a broker-mediated geospatial information service environment, comprising:

• providing from a broker system to a requestor a list comprising a plurality of process-dataset solutions, each process-dataset solution comprising a process and a dataset to be processed thereby for providing a geospatial information service for returning geospatial information to the requestor in accordance with search criteria provided by the requestor;
• providing in association with each process-dataset solution a current value indicator;
• receiving at the broker system from the requester user feedback data relating to an assessed value of a selected process-dataset solution based on geospatial information actually returned to the requestor in accordance with the provided search criteria;
• and,
• updating the current value indicator associated with the selected process-dataset solution based on the user feedback data, so as to obtain a new current value indicator associated with the selected process-dataset solution.

A method for providing a geospatial information service in a broker-mediated geospatial information service environment, comprising:

• receiving at a broker system a request from a requester, the request including search criteria for returning geospatial information to the requester;
• determining a plurality of process-dataset solutions, each process-dataset solution comprising a process and a dataset to be processed thereby so as to perform a geospatial information service for returning information based on geospatial information to the requester in accordance with the search criteria;
• and,
• providing from the broker system to the requestor a list comprising the plurality of process-dataset solutions, an ordering of the process-dataset solutions one relative to the other in the list being indicative of a relative value that is associated with each of the process-dataset solutions in the list.