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Federal efforts such as the Place Based Initiative and Geoplatform.gov highlight policy that should impact the use of geospatial technology within government agencies. With more senior officials "getting" geospatial and more practitioners taking roles as GIOs there's a steady drumbeat of need and value. But do these efforts have an impact on what really gets done?
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A new release of Esri Geoportal Server is available. The latest version of this free and open source product enables the discovery and use of geospatial resources and includes a new and improved metadata editor. To learn more and to download, visit www.esri.com/geoportal.
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.