Policy issues in modern cartography /

Modern cartography, as the two earlier volumes of this series on <IT>Geographic Information Systems: The Microcomputer and Modern Cartography</IT> (Taylor, 1991), and <IT>Visualization in Modern Cartography</IT> (MacEachren and Taylor, 1994) illustrate, is deeply interested i...

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Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology
Group Author: Taylor, D. R. F. David Ruxton Fraser, 1937
Published: Pergamon,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 1998.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Edition: First edition.
Series: Modern cartography ; v. 3
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/13630814/3
Summary: Modern cartography, as the two earlier volumes of this series on <IT>Geographic Information Systems: The Microcomputer and Modern Cartography</IT> (Taylor, 1991), and <IT>Visualization in Modern Cartography</IT> (MacEachren and Taylor, 1994) illustrate, 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. The driving forces of the information era are developments in computer technology and related develo
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (viii, 277 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780080431116
0080431119
9780080539188
0080539181
1281072095
9781281072092
Index Number: GA108
CLC: P28
Contents: National mapping as a business-like enterprise / David Rhind -- Spatial data policy and pricing in the United States / Stephen C. Guptill and Diane F. Eldridge -- Digital data, copyright, commercialization and related issues : a Canadian perspective / Mark Corey -- Availability and pricing of georeferenced data in Asia Pacific / Anthony Gar-On Yeh -- Copyright law issues in modern cartography / Lesley Ellen Harris -- The protection and availability of digital cartographic information and products / Aslesen Laila -- Legal protection of geographic databases : the viewpoint of the Institut Geog