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Professor Harlan J. Onsrud Spatial Information Science and Engineering University of Maine

Thinking Locally and Acting Globally: Government Information Policy Choices in Responding to the Global Geographic Data and Services Phenomena. Professor Harlan J. Onsrud Spatial Information Science and Engineering University of Maine Dubai, UAE, April 6-7, 2008. Community and nation mapping.

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Professor Harlan J. Onsrud Spatial Information Science and Engineering University of Maine

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  1. Thinking Locally and Acting Globally:Government Information Policy Choices in Responding to the Global Geographic Data and Services Phenomena Professor Harlan J. OnsrudSpatial Information Science and EngineeringUniversity of Maine Dubai, UAE, April 6-7, 2008

  2. Community and nation mapping … possible only by governments?

  3. Commercial companies

  4. How to accomplish statutory mandates?

  5. … build SDI internally … build public SDI but outsource … no domestic SDI

  6. Providing global earth imagery overlaid with framework data

  7. Norway

  8. Canada

  9. Goal of major corporations

  10. … provide services to local customers

  11. … feed back information from customers

  12. Detailed geographic data needed by natural resource companies UN relief agencies scientists development banks health organizations tourism companies conservation societies

  13. Globally distributed volunteer open access and web service efforts

  14. … to help map other distant communities Office Clickworkers:

  15. … enable on-the-ground collection and checking Crowd-Sourcing:

  16. Open Source

  17. Open Content

  18. Have good local data.Will sell.

  19. How to compete with major corporate players?

  20. don’t compete - make available with no restrictions Option 1

  21. participate in global marketplace for geographic data Option 2

  22. Challenge 1market extremely fragmented

  23. … the fragmentation lesson of credit cards

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