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DeliciousPodcast: Google Offers Access Point Mapping Opt-Out
Last week Google responded to past controversial data collections and Dutch legal efforts by adding a new "opt out" option. A tweak to the name of any wireless access point will tell Google not to collect the location data for the device. The response by the media and our readers included terms like "laughter," "blunder," and "joke." What can we learn from Google’s opt out offer and the tech community’s response?
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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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