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Last week the world began mourning the loss of former Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs. There were, and will continue to be, tributes and reminiscences over the coming months and years as the world tries to identify the impact he and his company have had on technology and our lives. This week we explore what the geospatial industry can learn from Steve Jobs and Apple.
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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.