TY - CHAP A1 - Kohler, L. A1 - Hartmann, Michael A1 - Schleusener, Heinz A1 - Timčák, Geza T1 - Web 2-presentation of regional data T2 - 5th International Conference on Perspectives of rural tourism in the New Europe, Košice N2 - Web portals and many Internet solutions contain objects with a geographical reference such as the position of a company or a tourist attraction. Existing maps are protected by copyright. The licence fee is high and it is very expensive and complicated to create own maps. Freely useable and suitable maps for presentations, such as open source, do not exist – although the project OpenGeoDB is growing day after day. Recently, however some changes occurred. After a registration, Yahoo and Google offer interfaces to their map data for non-commercial users. This can be used for free. The interfaces offer advanced user possibilities for accessing maps, which are mostly high resolution ones, using the Web 2 methods. We show how to integrate Google´s API interface into one's own web applications and finally, how regional data, stored in a database, can be presented by this solution. Currently, Google does not have sufficiently detailed maps for Eastern Europe yet. Nevertheless, our web solution uses data of the region Zips (Špis) in Slovakia. It demonstrates how geo-based data can be used for supporting regional marketing concepts by Web 2 in the future. KW - Regional data Y1 - 2006 N1 - Volltext aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht verfügbar. Fulltext due to copyright not available. SP - 55 EP - 58 ER -