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Our editors dig into the news from MAPPS, Proquest, Cloudmade and Google. Hidden under thick language of this week's press releases are indications of what opportunities and bumps may be ahead for geospatial technologies in the coming months.
Show Notes
Lining Up Data in ArcGIS: A Guide to Map Projections, a new book by ESRI Press, is an easy-to-navigate, troubleshooting reference for any GIS user with the common problem of data misalignment. Complete with maps and diagrams, this guide presents techniques for identifying data projections and creating custom projections to align your data. To read an excerpt from the book or for more information, visit www.esri.com/esripress.
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.