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How many terms can you think of to describe a narrow or broad aspect of geotechnologies? Geospatial? LBS? Geolocation? Location Intelligence? Geodesign? Why do we have so many? And, do all these terms interfere with the growth of the community? How do you answer when someone asks what you do?
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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.