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This Gambrell map plots the top Autocomplete response per state for ‘why is…’ for a zeitgeisty look at folks’ perceptions of the various United States.
Using Google’s Autocomplete feature, ‘why is Alabama’, and so on, typed in -with the top response used to assign the label of each of the United States. This map uses the autocomplete method to paint in the spirit of the times per state made popular by Dorothy Gambrell, various interrogative prefixing was the idea of Adam Flink here at IDV. Adobe Fireworks was used to compose the map.
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.