GeoData Policy

Comparison of the PSI Re-use (2003) and INSPIRE (2007) Directives, by Roger Longhorn.

Posted to the GSDI Legal-Econ listserv Vol. 50, Issue 1, on February 19, 2009.
http://lists.gsdi.org/pipermail/legal-econ/attachments/20090219/cf259bb3/attachment.pdf

A. J. Wortley of the Wisconsin State Cartographer’s Office passed along the following through the Weary Mappers listsev (February 19, 2008):

• Abbas Rajabifard, Ian P. Williamson, Peter Holl, Glenn Johnstone – From Local to Global SDI Initiatives: a pyramid of building blocs
• David Maguire – Where Next for SDI?
• Exploring Spatial Data Infrastructures Workshop, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 19-20 January 2006
• Ir. Bastiaan van Loenen – How to Assess the Status of SDI?
• Ian Masser – The Future of SDIs
• Ian Masser – Multilevel Implementation of SDIs
• Ian Masser – Spatial Data Infrastructures: A SWOTS Analysis
• Garfield Giff and David Coleman - Funding Models for SDI Implementation: from Local to Global

Also,

• Developing Spatial Data Infrastructures: The SDI Cookbook (2nd Ed, 2004)
• SDI Africa Cookbook

For a very interesting critical analysis of the the SDI movement, visit the following posting by Paul Ramsey on his “Clever Elephant Blog”:

• Paul Ramsey - Why SDIs Fail

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Presentations from the European Commission INSPIRE Conference 2008: Implementation and Beyond – EC GI & GIS Workshops, held June 23, 2008 in Maribor, Slovenia, are now online. More than 340 highly motivated participants came from 40 different countries to take part in the conference, raising the high quality presentations and workshops, which show the growing relevance of INSPIRE. A sample of the presentations are provided below. For links to all workshop presentations, visit:

http://www.ec-gis.org/Workshops/inspire_2008/presentations.cfm

Legal Issues

Legal and organisational framework for the Spanish national SDI

Seeing the bigger picture: mapping out a vision of INSPIRE

One Scotland:One geography INSPIRE in the world of :Politick Verdadero/Politick Reale/ Reales politick/ Vrai politick/ Echte politick

INSPIRE directive in the Czech Legal System

Towards SDI Legislation in Poland

Data Sharing

Legal aspects about sharing geodata: a business model for licensing geographic information

Public Private Partnerships for building Spatial Data Infrastructures

Natura 2000: how to reconcile data sharing and sensitiveness of data?

Cooperation with spatial information obscured by clouds or the dark side of the moon?