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The Power of Place: Geography, Destiny, and Globalization’s Rough Landscape

In recent years a spate of books and articles have argued that the world today is so mobile, so interconnected and so integrated that it is, in one prominent assessment, flat. But as Harm de...More

Cross-cultural Collaboration: Native Peoples And Archaeology in the Northeastern United States

Cross-Cultural Collaboration is an anthology of essays on Native American involvement in archaeology in the northeastern United States and on the changing relationship between archaeologists and...More

Geographies of New Orleans: Urban Fabrics Before the Storm

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Center For Louisiana Studies, 2006.

GIS For Sustainable Development

This book examines how GIS applications can improve collaboration in decision making among those involved in promoting sustainable development. This volume reviews leading GIScience, providing...More

Manual of Geospatial Science and Technology

Professionals in local and national government and in the private sector frequently need to draw on Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS) and Global Positioning Systems...More

GIS and Land Records

Describing applications and uses for parcel information in an ArcGIS geodatabase, this book covers the data model developed as a framework for land record information in an ArcGIS environment....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.