附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Editors' Preface; Contributors; European Science Foundation; International aspects of spatial data exchange; The Creation of Multinational Databases; From an understanding of European GI economic activity to the reality of a European data set; Transboundary European GIS databases: review of the Baltic region experiences; Multinational Databases for Specific Applications; Development of a GIS for hydrological modelling of the River Rhine
The MEDALUS georeferenced database: an application used for land degradation research in the european mediterraneanDevelopments in cross-border standards for geodemographic segmentation; Multinational Database Products; European geoinformation data publishing: understanding the commercial industry; Data integration for commercial information products: experiences from the EC's IMPACT-2 programme; Legal and Institutional Issues Associated with the Development of Multinational Databases; Legal protection of geographic information in the EU
Intellectual property and mapping: a European perspectiveLegal and institutional issues to be resolved with respect to the integration of European Data; Intellectual property rights in disseminating digital geographic data, products and services: conflicts and commonalities among EU and US approaches; Index
摘要:Presenting complementary perspectives for a positive approach to a pan European Geographic Information programme. This work uses case studies on a variety of applications, and examines legal and consitutional issues.
