The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of geographic information (GI) policy. A review of the Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) concept gives readers a framework for government GI organization, access, and use policy issues. The chapter concludes with an in-depth analyses of the U.S. National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI), which summarizes one country’s past approaches and future directions for SDI implementation.
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Bishop, W., & Grubesic, T. H. (2016). Policy. In Springer Geography (pp. 53–77). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22789-4_4
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