Policy Issues in Modern Cartography

Download or read book Policy Issues in Modern Cartography written by D.R. Fraser Taylor and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1998-10-16 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policy Issues in Modern Cartography contains the views of national mapping agencies, legal scholars, the library community, the private sector and academia on these and many other important issues. The book begins with perspectives from national mapping agencies in Britain, Canada and the United States followed by a survey of the situation in Asia. The next three chapters deal primarily with legal issues such as copyright and intellectual property from both North American and European perspectives. Chapter 8 presents an important perspective on the key issues by a representative of the private sector followed by six chapters written primarily by academics including an important contribution by a map librarian. The volume concludes with an assessment of the challenges remaining.