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In just the first 10 days of August, the Bing Maps team has made four big announcements - from an app contest with a flashy cab fare calculator, to the addition of an OpenStreetMap layer, to a new dynamic labels interface with new cartography, to an app for citizens of Seattle. How does this position Bing Maps as it continues the battle with Google in the geospatial arena?
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The Esri Business Analyst Online (BAO) for iOS app is now available for download from the Apple app store. With this free app, you can access the data and market analysis tools of BAO on the go, using your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. For more information and to download the app, visit www.esri.com/baoforios.
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.