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Geographic Information Systems: Challenges to Effective Data Sharing

The BiblioGov Project is an effort to expand awareness of the public documents and records of the U.S. Government via print publications. In broadening the public understanding of government...More

Building European Spatial Data Infrastructures, Second Edition

The second edition of Building European Spatial Data Infrastructures explores the efforts of the European Union to create a framework for a multinational infrastructure for spatial information...More

GIS in Public Policy: Using Geographic Information for More Effective Government

Geographic information systems (GIS) are quickly becoming powerful tools in the arsenals of local and national policy makers. This case-study book shows how progressive policy makers have put...More

Research and Theory in Advancing Spatial Data Infrastructure Concepts

This scholarly anthology presents the latest research by renowned international experts and offers insights into possible directions in which spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) may be headed....More

Digital Government: Principles and Best Practices

Text presents a fresh perspective on e-government theory and the issues related to implementing e-government initiatives. For academics and practitioners who are looking for solutions to...More

Managing IT in Government, Business & Communities

This guide presents the most current research and findings about the challenges governments around the world are now placing on small business IT entrepreneurs and how they are providing...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.