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Several geospatial announcements and events made our editors respond, "Huh?" This week, to wrap up the year they share the surprises of the past twelve months.
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Urban Policy and the Census, from Esri Press, helps you understand and use census data for population research, planning, and decision-making. The book offers a methodology to conduct spatial analysis on demographic, economic, housing, and transportation data. For more information, visit esri.com/esripress.
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.