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Course Name	Turkish	Geo-Data Policy
	English	Geo-Data Policy
Course Code	GIT 601E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Tahsin Yomralıoğlu
Course Objectives		Various departments in government or individuals maintain many layers of GIS data. These layers of information should be available for public access in several different ways. The purpose of geo-data policy is mainly to address the issues related to GIS data access, product availability, distribution methods, product and service costs. In this way, internet based data access, standard digital data, and hard copy mapping policies shall be examined for special data preparation, data conversion, data analysis, and application development.
Course Description		Institutional requirements and developing policies accordingly. The legislation principles for GIS data storage, sharing and presentation. Technical and institutional requirements for national spatial data infrastructure. Central and local government policies to provide the spatial data. Data privacy. Metadata production policies. Political requirements for corporate structuring of GIS
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Other References		1. LaGates, R., 2005. Think Globally Act Regionally, ESRI Press, ISBN 978-1589481240. 2. Jou, C.T., Humenik, N., 2009. GIS For Decision Support and Public Policy Making, ESRI Press, ISBN 978-1-58948-231-9. 3. Wise, S., Craglia, M., 2007. GIS and Evidence-Based Policy Making, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, ISBN 978-0849385834. 4. NRC, 2004. Licensing geographic data and services, National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Licensing Geographic Data and Services National Academies Press. 5. Greene, R.W., 2000. GIS in public policy: using geographic information for more effective government, ESRI, Inc.

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