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Show Notes
Directions Magazine 2010 Reader Survey
New mobile telecommunications industry guidelines and consumer tips set benchmark for Location Based Services (press release)
AMTA Guidelines for Location Service Providers for the Use of Mobile Technolgy to Provide Passive Location-based Services in Australia (pdf)
Best Practices and Guidelines for Location-Based Services - CTIA (pdf)
The new release of ArcGIS for AutoCAD is available to download at no cost. This update includes support for AutoCAD 2010 and 2011, a ribbon interface to quickly add online maps to a CAD drawing, and the ability to query by attribute. To learn more and to download, visit www.esri.com/autocadapp.
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.