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"Quick! Get me the information on where the party is tonight!" What do you do? E-mail a link to an online map? Text the bar’s address? Or, take out a piece of paper and sketch? Or even, take out a map and sketch on top of it? What factors are keeping the hand-drawn map a viable solution? Will it remain one for just another generation, or longer?
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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.