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This week a tweet intrigued our editors: "how's market penetration of Geomedia these days ? #doomed? I get the feeling that the only 2 options in GIS World nowadays are ESRI or OSS." They provide some insights and answers.
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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.