Policy Issues in Modern Cartography
Published in August 1998
Book
Hardback
286 pages
978-0-08-043111-6 (ISBN)
Description
The driving forces of the information era are developments in computer technology and related developments in satellites and telecommunications and these forces have had a fundamental impact on all aspects of cartography. This text discusses policy issues related to this topic.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-08-043111-6 (9780080431116)
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D. R. Fraser Taylor
Policy Issues in Modern Cartography
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10/1998
Elsevier
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Content
National mapping as a business-like enterprise; spatial data policy and pricing in the United States; digital data, copyright, commercialization and related issues - a Canadian perspective; availability and pricing of georeferenced data in Asia Pacific; copyright law issues in modern cartography; the protection and availability of digital cartographic information and products; legal protection of geographic databases - the viewpoint of the Institut Geographique National, France; a private sector perspective; tragedy of the information commons; availability of geospatial data through libraries in the United States; modern cartography, policy issues and the developing nations - rhetroic and reality; professional responsibility and ethics in the spatial sciences; the three Rs of GIS-based site selection - representation, resistance and ridicule; why GIS needs postmodern social theory, and vice versa; conclusion -some remaining challenges.