Interactive Gazetteer Process
Data communication in XML between: User Interface server, Gazetteer Processor and distributed gazetteer serversTwo protocols: Service Brokerage and a Matching ProtocolUse these alternatively to drill down to something considered a location (this is left to the decentral systems) in decreasing areas ("The Netherlands" is an area, might be a location)
Service Brokerage protocol: The UI initiates a request for available ways of indicating a location, in a hierarchy (first response will be "country level", beneith that "airport level" and "town level" etc)
Matching protocol: Ask the appropriate servers to match a user text into a system recognized identification