Patent ID: 8626788

Claim:
A method for determining a value indicator in a broker-mediated geospatial information service environment, comprising: receiving from a second system via a communication network at a first system of the broker-mediated geospatial information service environment, from a plurality of respondents, feedback data relating to a broker-mediated geospatial information service based upon geospatial data including location and characteristic data relating to natural and constructed features and boundaries on the Earth and a geospatial information process for geospatially processing said dataset provided to each respondent of the plurality of respondents, each respondent of the plurality of respondents being a prior requestor of a process-dataset solution for performing the broker-mediated geospatial information service; based on the feedback data, determining a value indicator relating to the process-dataset solution based upon geospatial data including location and characteristic data relating to natural and constructed features and boundaries on the Earth and a geospatial information process for geospatially processing said dataset of the process-dataset solution; and transmitting via the communication network from the broker-mediated geospatial information service the value indicator in association with the process-dataset solution.