Sharing and Using Geospatial Data Across Borders
Sharing and Using Geospatial Data Across Borders

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Published: 2021

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ISBN-13: 9789276409915

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Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) are key for effective cross-border data-sharing. A Spatial Data Infrastructure is "a framework of policies, institutional arrangements, technologies, data, and people that enable the sharing and effective usage of geographic." As such, they can play a pivotal role in digital government transformation. The present study demonstrates how geospatial data from multiple countries can be used to develop location powered insights. In addition, it provides information on the types of enabling environments that can foster data-driven innovation. The overarching question that the study seeks to respond to is: "What is the current state of play on sharing and using geospatial data across European borders? What can we learn from these practices to support the evolution of Spatial Data Infrastructures?" The study builds on the analysis of data collected through desk research, eight case studies and a dedicated workshop. The case studies, through customised interviews, provide first-hand knowledge and experiences on the exchange of geospatial data across borders in the European context of public, private and non-profit organisations. Insights include benefits such as improved collaboration, economic gains, improved access to information, and new and improved services. Among the challenges that emerged are worth mentioning the lack of technical and organisational interoperability to establish a sustainable ecosystem with a culture of sharing data, including problems with licensing, data portability and privacy issues. This study forms part of the European Location Interoperability Solutions for e-Government (ELISE) action of the European Interoperability solutions for public administrations, businesses and citizens Programme, better known by its acronym ISA. ELISE aims to facilitate the cross-border use of location data and support the digital transformation of public services.

Mapping the Determinants of Spatial Data Sharing
Mapping the Determinants of Spatial Data Sharing

Author: Uta Wehn de Montalvo

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-01

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1351769294

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This title was first published in 2003. With the increasing use of GIS in industrialised and developing countries, the availability of spatial data has become an issue that affects many public and private sector organisations. They are faced with the high cost and substantial effort involved in the generation of spatial data and so the sharing of this data is increasingly being seen as a way of overcoming expense and easing availability and access. But this can provide a way of using GIS effectively only if the key players involved in the use and supply of spatial data are willing to share. This book employs a theory from social psychology as an organising framework to systematize the determinants of organisations' spatial data sharing behaviour. It develops a model which explains the likely willingness of key individuals within organisations to engage in spatial data exchanges across organisational boundaries and then tests this on a survey based in South Africa.

Service-Oriented Mapping
Service-Oriented Mapping

Author: Jürgen Döllner

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-06-07

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 3319724347

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This book gathers various perspectives on modern map production. Its primary focus is on the new paradigm of “sharing and reuse,” which is based on decentralized, service-oriented access to spatial data sources. Service-Oriented Mapping is one of the main paradigms used to embed big data and distributed sources in modern map production, without the need to own the sources. To be stable and reliable, this architecture requires specific frameworks, tools and procedures. In addition to the technological structures, organizational aspects and geographic information system (GIS) capabilities provide powerful tools to make modern geoinformation management successful. Addressing a range of aspects, including the implementation of the semantic web in geoinformatics, using big data for geospatial visualization, standardization initiatives, and the European spatial data infrastructure, the book offers a comprehensive introduction to decentralized map production. .

Understanding Spatial Media
Understanding Spatial Media

Author: Rob Kitchin

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2017-02-06

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1473988187

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Over the past decade, a new set of interactive, open, participatory and networked spatial media have become widespread. These include mapping platforms, virtual globes, user-generated spatial databases, geodesign and architectural and planning tools, urban dashboards and citizen reporting geo-systems, augmented reality media, and locative media. Collectively these produce and mediate spatial big data and are re-shaping spatial knowledge, spatial behaviour, and spatial politics. Understanding Spatial Media brings together leading scholars from around the globe to examine these new spatial media, their attendant technologies, spatial data, and their social, economic and political effects. The 22 chapters are divided into the following sections: Spatial media technologies Spatial data and spatial media The consequences of spatial media Understanding Spatial Media is the perfect introduction to this fast emerging phenomena for students and practitioners of geography, urban studies, data science, and media and communications.

Geographic Data and the Law
Geographic Data and the Law

Author: Katleen Janssen

Publisher: Leuven University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 9058679241

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Understanding the legal challenges relating to spatial data information (SDI).

Both Sides of the Border
Both Sides of the Border

Author: Linda Fernandez

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2005-12-30

Total Pages: 501

ISBN-13: 0306479613

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The Mexican -- United States border represents much more than the meeting place of two nations. Our border communities are often a line of first defense -- absorbing the complex economic, environmental and social impacts of globalization that ripple through the region. In many ways, our success or failure in finding solutions for the environmental, social and economic issues that plague the region may well define our ability to meet similar challenges thousands of miles from the border zone. Border residents face the environmental security concerns posed by water scarcity and transboundary air pollution; the planning and infrastructure needs of an exploding population; the debilitating effects of inadequate sanitary and health facilities; and the crippling cycle of widespread poverty. Yet, with its manifold problems, the border area remains an area of great dynamism and hope -- a multicultural laboratory of experimentation and grass-roots problem-solving. Indeed, as North America moves towards a more integrated economy, citizen action at the local level is pushing governments to adapt to the driving forces in the border area by creating new institutional arrangements and improving old ones. If there is one defining feature of this ground-up push for more responsive transboundary policies and institutions, it is a departure from the closed, formalistic models of the past to a more open, transparent and participatory model of international interaction.

The Future of Open Data
The Future of Open Data

Author: Pamela Robinson

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 2022-05-24

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 077662976X

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The Future of Open Data flows from a multi-year Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Grant project that set out to explore open government geospatial data from an interdisciplinary perspective. Researchers on the grant adopted a critical social science perspective grounded in the imperative that the research should be relevant to government and civil society partners in the field. This book builds on the knowledge developed during the course of the grant and asks the question, “What is the future of open data?” The contributors’ insights into the future of open data combine observations from five years of research about the Canadian open data community with a critical perspective on what could and should happen as open data efforts evolve. Each of the chapters in this book addresses different issues and each is grounded in distinct disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspectives. The opening chapter reflects on the origins of open data in Canada and how it has progressed to the present date, taking into account how the Indigenous data sovereignty movement intersects with open data. A series of chapters address some of the pitfalls and opportunities of open data and consider how the changing data context may impact sources of open data, limits on open data, and even liability for open data. Another group of chapters considers new landscapes for open data, including open data in the global South, the data priorities of local governments, and the emerging context for rural open data.

GEOValue
GEOValue

Author: Jamie Kruse

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2017-11-15

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1498774520

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Quantifying the social and economic value that geospatial information contributes to modern society is a complex task. To construct reliable and consistent valuation measures requires an understanding of the sequence of processes that starts with data acquisition, and leads to decision-makers’ choices that impact society. GEOValue explores each step in this complex value chain from the viewpoint of domain experts spanning disciplines that range from the technical side of data acquisition and management to the social sciences that provide the framework to assess the benefit to society. The book is intended to provide foundational understanding of the techniques and complexities of each step in the process. As such it is intended to be assessable to a reader without prior training in data acquisition systems, information systems, or valuation methods. In addition, a number of case studies are provided that demonstrate the use of geospatial information as a critical input for evaluation of policy pertaining to a wide range of application areas, such as agricultural and environmental policy, natural catastrophes, e-government and transportation systems.