Geospatial Data Infrastructure 
Subtitle: Concepts, Cases, and Good Practice (Spatial Information Systems (Cloth))
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: September 25, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780198233817
First sentence: Over the last three decades, governments and the private sector in the industrial world have invested tens of billions of dollars in the development of geospatial information systems designed largely to serve specific communities (forestry, urban planning, land records management, business geographics, etc.) within a local, national, and even international framework.