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How would a business distill the cacophony of "tweets" and Facebook "likes" into meaningful information, much of which has geospatial context? If semantic technology is able to understand the meanings of words expressed in their proper context, where do location-based data fit? Our editors discuss whether location technology is part of the semantic Web or just a “nice to have” data point with marginal relevance.
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The ArcGIS App for Windows Phone is available for download free from Microsoft’s Zune Marketplace. In addition, developers can create interactive applications by leveraging Esri’s ArcGIS API for Windows Phone 7 devices. To learn more or to download, visit . www.esri.com/windowsphone.
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.