Geo-enable
Geo-Enable (also written GeoEnable or Geoenable) is a neologism, portmanteau derived from the words Geospatial & Enablement - 'Geospatial Enablement'. Associated words include Geo-Enablment and Geo-Enabling.
Geo-Enable as a verb is increasingly in use in the fields of GIS, Web Development, Mobility, Information Management (IM) and IT - with no formal definition, but as an intuitive term such as 'Web-Enabled' or 'GPS-Enabled' - Geo-Enable suggests the application of location or geospatial information in innovative ways, as part of business processes or using ‘location intelligence’ to agument non-spatial information systems and/or Business Intelligence (BI).
Geospatial Enablement can be thought of as the integrated, cryptic use and utilization of Geographic Information, apposed to using Geographic Information within a geographic & technology-centric environment of somethng such as a GPS or GIS.
One definition is given by the US Government:
'To geo-enable is to apply geospatial capabilities to a business process in order to establish the authoritative spatial location of business data, and enable contextual spatial analysis.'