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What is the current state of free and open source software for geospatial? As many prepare for next week's FOSS4G event our editors share their perspectives.
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Attend Esri's "Extend the Reach of Your GIS" seminar to learn best practices on publishing and sharing your maps, data, and models. This free half-day seminar is being held in select locations across the United States from September through November. To register for the seminar location closest to you, visit esri.com/extendyourreach.
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.