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The latest National Science Foundation effort to improve K-12 geographic literacy involves a $2.2 million grant to four organizations to "Establish a Road Map for Large-Scale Improvement of K-12 Education in the Geographical Sciences." Our reactions? Mixed.
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The ArcGIS Viewer for Microsoft Silverlight, now in beta, is available for download. The free, ready-to-use, web mapping application can be easily customized without writing a single line of code or editing configuration files. For more information and to download, visit http://beta.esri.com/community.
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.