Tuesday, April 14. 2009

Podcast: Gathering Data from the Asia Pacific Region-Obstacles and Successes

Geospatial data are relatively easy to obtain in the U.S. but what about in the Asia Pacific region where government policy differs widely from country to country. In fact, today’s challenges in the region have moved from acquiring the spatial foundation data (streets, basic demographics, and political boundaries) to data with finer demographic and geographic granularity. Editor in chief Joe Francica spoke with Sean Richards, director of product management for Pitney Bowes Business Insight (PBBI) in Brisbane, Australia, and Scott Robinson, director of global data products for PBBI about the obstacles to success and whether countries recognize the benefit of a more open data policy.
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Posted by Joe Francica in PBBI [MapInfo], Location Intelligence, Podcasts, Special Topics Podcast, Data, Demographics at 06:07 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

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