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What if your IT manager walked into your office and let you know it was time to move your geospatial operation into the cloud? What would you do? Where would you start? Do you even know what questions to ask? Our editors assess the state of the geocloud and offer some advice on how to prepare for what may be that inevitable knock on the door.
Show Notes
Building European Spatial Data Infrastructures, Second Edition, a new book by Esri Press, features community efforts to create a framework for a multinational Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE). Designed as a reference for GIS professionals and decision makers, the book promotes a general understanding of SDI concepts and provides examples of practical applications. 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.