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DeliciousPodcast: Curating Geodata from Social Media to Map the London Riots
Last week’s news of riots across England sparked many news outlets to do the logical thing: map them. And many did, using eyewitness accounts, authoritative sources and social media. This week we look at the challenge of using social media as geodata and what journalists, geospatial professionals and the public can learn from these efforts.
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Towards a Global Licensing Framework for Geospatial Data
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.
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