Towards a Development Process for Geospatial Information Retrieval and Search

Geospatial search as a special type of vertical search has specific requirements and challenges. While the general principle of resource discovery, extraction, indexing, and search holds, geospatial search systems are tailored to the specific use case at hand with many individual adaptations. In this short overview, we aim to collect and organize the main organizing principles for the multitude of challenges and adaptations to be considered within the development process to work towards a more formal description.