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Education and Technology for a Better World: 9th IFIP TC 3 World Conference on Computers in Education

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th IFIP TC 3 World Conference on computers in Education, WCCE 2009, held in Bento GonÃ§alves, Brazil, in July 2009. The 48 revised full...More

The Implementation and Effectiveness of GIS in Secondary Education: Geographic Information Systems in Education

Some educators consider GIS to be one of the most promising means for implementing educational reform. However, GIS technology has been adopted by only 1% of American high schools. This research...More

Analyzing Our World Using GIS: Our World GIS Education, Level 3

The third volume in the Our World GIS Education series promotes inquiry-based learning in world geography and other disciplines through the use of geographic information systems (GIS), a...More

Making Spatial Decisions Using GIS: Our World GIS Education, Level 4

The fourth volume in the Our World GIS Education series features open-ended activities that stress the use of GIS in problem solving and decision making. Designed for high school and college...More

Mapping Our World Using GIS: Our World GIS Education, Level 2

A follow-up to Mapping Our World: GIS Lessons for Educators, this second volume in the Our World GIS Education series contains updated materials and lessons that combine geography, data...More

Thinking Spatially Using GIS: Our World GIS Education, Level 1

Early exposure to geography, spatial thinking, and geographic information systems (GIS), helps students gain an understanding of the world around them. With the first volume in the Our World GIS...More

Digital Geography: Geospatial Technologies in the Social Studies Classroom

A volume in International Social Studies Forum: The Series Series Editors Richard Diem, University of Texas at San Antonio and Jeff Passe, University of North Carolina, Charlotte The purpose of...More

Introduction to Geographic Information Systems with Data Files CD-ROM

This book is designed to provide students in a first or second GIS course with a solid foundation in both GIS concepts and the use of GIS. Introduction to GIS strikes a careful balance between...More

GIS in Schools

Classrooms-and learning-are being transformed in grade, middle, and high schools around the country through the use of GIS. High school students in Massachusetts stage a simulated spill of toxic...More

Handbook of Geographic Information Science (Blackwell Companions to Geography)

This handbook is an essential reference to the rapidly expanding field of Geographic Information Science. Designed to suit those who want an in-depth treatment of the subject, it comprises...More

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Towards a Global Licensing Framework for Geospatial Data

Is it time for a global licensing framework for geospatial data? The GSDI Legal and Economic Working group thinks so and offered a presentation and a way forward at the GSDI 13 conference held in Quebec City in May. The effort aims to harmonize existing licensing without changing fundamental access policies and funding models and be compatible with the diferences in national legal systems. That's a tall order, but an important one as the world moves toward geodata sharing. Geoff Zeiss reports.