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Two reports last week suggest new backends and datasets may power Microsoft's and Yahoo's mapping products. What is the state of technology and basemaps that power mapping portals? What are the implications of this kind of consolidation on the businesses' bottom lines and would will these changes impact users and third party developers?
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A new version of ArcGIS Explorer Online is available. This updated web-based application lets you share your map content and easily create and distribute dynamic presentations. To try ArcGIS Explorer Online for free, visit explorer.arcgis.com/.
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.