Compares the development of national spatial data infrastructures in four different countires

What is it about?

This book considers the nature of the relationship between governments and geographic information from a number of different conceptual positions and also with reference to the experiences of four different governments in terms of the development of national geographic information strategies. The discussion is divided into three main parts. The first of these considers what is special about geographic information and evaluates the notion of geographic information from four different standpoints: as a resource, a commodity, an asset and an infrastructure. The second part presents the findings from four case studies of national geographic information strategies in Britain, the Netherlands, Australia and the United States while the final section evaluates these experiences with a view to identifying what general lessons can be learnt from them .

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