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"Pastmapper is a new platform for organizing data using the visual language of online maps to describe the world of the past." The image below shows San Francisco in 1853. On the site you can click the "2011" button to see the changes. Used with permission. More information on the project's blog.
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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.
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