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An article this past week, titled "11 ways geolocation is changing the world," prompted our editors to dig deeper into whether the application of location technology could impact the world, one person at at time, for good. While optimistic, Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg found some bumps along the path, which stretches far ahead of us.
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Videos from the 2010 Esri International User Conference plenary are now available online. You can hear Esri president Jack Dangermond share his vision for making GIS available to everyone, listen to Esri staff discuss ArcGIS 10, see GIS users celebrated, and listen to keynote speaker and TED founder Richard Saul Wurman talk about urban supercities. To watch the videos, visit www.esri.com/uc.
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.