UID:
almahu_9949697921602882
Umfang:
1 online resource (287 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-281-07209-5
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9786611072094
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0-08-053918-1
Serie:
Modern cartography ; v. 3
Inhalt:
Policy Issues in Modern Cartography addresses policy issues of special interest to cartographers. Some of them, such as copyright and intellectual property rights, are not new but take on new significance as a result of technological changes. Modern cartography is deeply interested in the technological advances of the information revolution and their impact on the discipline and profession. The vast majority of the growing literature in recent years has dealt with some aspect of technological change. What can be described as obsession with technological change has, in the last
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Front Cover; Policy Issues in Modern Cartography; Copyright Page; Contents; Chapter 1. National Mapping as a Business-Like Enterprise; Chapter 2. Spatial Data Policy and Pricing in the United States; Chapter 3. Digital Data, Copyright, Commercialization and Related Issues - A Canadian Perspective; Chapter 4. Availability and Pricing of Georeferenced Data in Asia Pacific; Chapter 5. Copyright Law Issues in Modern Cartography; Chapter 6. The Protection and Availability of Digital Cartographic Information and Products
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Chapter 7. Legal Protection of Geographic Databases: The Viewpoint of the Institut Geographique National FranceChapter 8. A Private Sector Perspective; Chapter 9. Tragedy of the Information Commons; Chapter 10. Availability of Geospatial Data through Libraries in The United States; Chapter 11. Modern Cartography, Policy Issues and the Developing Nations: Rhetoric and Reality; Chapter 12. Professional Responsibility and Ethics In The Spatial Sciences; Chapter 13. The Three R's of GIS-Based Site Selection: Representation, Resistance and Ridicule
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Chapter 14. Why GIS Needs Postmodern Social Theory, And Vice VersaConclusion; Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-08-043111-9
Sprache:
Englisch
