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Editors Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg interviewed Marissa Mayer, Googles vice president for location and local services on January 13, 2011. Ms. Mayer was the first female engineer hired at Google and one of its first 20 employees, joining the company in June 1999. In October, the company announced that Mayer would join the team that will be responsible for location-based services related to advertising and search. Before joining the Geo team she was the vice president of Search Products and User Experience, which means that she has had an impact on nearly every product delivered by Google.
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.