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An article about the merging of data.gov with geodata.gov prompted many in the geospatial community to note concerns about the U.S. government's transparency, contracting and relationships with vendors. What made for all the consternation? And what can we learn from this episode? Our editors recap what happened, what their further research reveals and what they see as the "take aways" for the parties involved.
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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.