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DeliciousPodcast: A Look Back at 9/11 and GIS in NYC - An Interview with Al Leidner, New York City’s GIS Director in 2001
Welcome to another Directions Media podcast. In this intervifew, editor in chief Joe Francica speaks with Al Leidner of Booz Allen Hamilton. Back in 2001, Mr. Leidner, was the director of New York City's GIS project at the city's department of Information Technology and Telecommunications or DoITT and the person most responsible for coordinating geospatial technology during the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11. Mr. Leidner takes a look back at the events of that day and how GIS became an integral part of the recovery 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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