Spatial Law and Its Relevance to Geospatial Practitioners
- Author: Sangeeta Deogawanka
- Full Title: Spatial Law and Its Relevance to Geospatial Practitioners
- Category: articles
- Document Tags: #geospatial
- URL: https://www.geographyrealm.com/spatial-law-and-its-relevance-to-geospatial-practitioners/
Highlights
- GIS is increasingly being infused with Big Data capabilities, open source projects, and crowdsourced applications. At the same time, the regulations are minimal. This has given rise to litigations, with the issues surrounding spatial data cutting across legal disciplines. (View Highlight)
- Cases of unregulated data capture and sharing have thus driven the need for a comprehensive policy framework to address use of geospatial technologies and spatial data. (View Highlight)
- Spatial Law is an emerging area of law that deals exclusively with spatial technology and its applications. It is part of a government’s policy making process for regulation of lawful, ethical and bona fide use of spatial technologies and practice areas. Spatial law would thus include legislations concerning the collection, visualization, distribution and use of spatial data using various geospatial technologies or other technologies with a location component. (View Highlight)