Spatial Law and Policy Update (December 21, 2009)

Spatial data will play an important role in the development of the smart grid. However, as this article from cnet suggests, one of the requ...

Drones in Iraq - Why Wasn't the Data Encrypted?

I can't help but think that the failure to encrypt the spatial data collected by drones in Iraq, as described in this article from the ...

Spatial Law and Policy Update (December 14, 2009)

A former student forwarded me an email about this story of a New Zealand woman who deliberately falsified information about competitors on ...

Spatial Law and Policy Update (December 5, 2009)

James Fee recent post on his blog discusses the difficulties he has faced in connection with trying to obtain spatial data from the City of...

Spatial Law and Policy Update (November)

First, I want to apologize for the delay in posting on the site. A combination of extensive travel in the midst of switching law firms made ...

Spatial Law and Policy Update (October 25, 2009)

I found this to be a practical approach to using technology to reduce privacy concerns associated with vehicle tracking for businesses. CNE...

Spatial Law and Policy (September 6, 2009)

A San Diego-area television station reports that residents of Poway, California are being asked to clear brush away from their homes in ord...

Spatial Law and Policy Update (August 30, 2009)

A New York Times article on new steps being taken at Wikipedia to regulate input by its users. I found that it raised some interesting issu...

Update on Spatial Law and Policy

California has revised its proposed "Pay As You Drive" insurance regulations . A full copy of the regulations can be found here. V...

Recent Spatial Law and Policy links

1. A recent article from Asian Surveying and Mapping on how surveyors are being disciplined, and in some cases sued, in Texas in connection ...

Spatial Law and Policy review

From The Daily Star, in Oneota , New York, an article describing how information obtained by a GPS device was used by police in convicting ...