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Open source #11: next generation mapping: Jo Walsh considers geospatial data policy issues in national government agencies.
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GEO: connexion
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June 1, 2008
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- Walsh, Jo
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As the use of open source software opened up a wide range of new usage models and business markets, so too many the idea of "open data". This month Jo Walsh discusses new, open models for geographic data collection and dissemination at the national government level.
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Governments need geodata, whether it's collected for census-taking or taxation purposes, the monitoring of environmental change of the allocation of land-use subsidies. Public sector agencies produce and consume a great quantity and variety of geographic information. Attitudes towards re-use and re-dissemination of this data notoriously vary, in recent years, we've seen a slow trend ...