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Directions Magazine editors are covering the 2010 ESRI International User Conference this week. Today's podcast is their reaction to this year's plenary session which typically sets the agenda for the rest of the week. Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg described the plenary this way in a blog post: "The ESRI UC 2010 Plenary was short on jaw-dropping announcements, but solid in message: ArcGIS is a complete system for GIS and you should use it!" She and Editor in Chief Joe Francica share their candid thoughts.
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This podcast is sponsored by ERDAS.
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.