Mapping the Determinants of Spatial Data Sharing (Routledge Revivals) - Hardcover

Wehn De Montalvo, Uta

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138716073 ISBN 13: 9781138716070

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

This title was first published in 2003. With the increasing use of GIS in industrialised and developing countries, the availability of spatial data has become an issue that affects many public and private sector organisations. They are faced with the high cost and substantial effort involved in the generation of spatial data and so the sharing of this data is increasingly being seen as a way of overcoming expense and easing availability and access. But this can provide a way of using GIS effectively only if the key players involved in the use and supply of spatial data are willing to share. This book employs a theory from social psychology as an organising framework to systematize the determinants of organisations' spatial data sharing behaviour. It develops a model which explains the likely willingness of key individuals within organisations to engage in spatial data exchanges across organisational boundaries and then tests this on a survey based in South Africa.

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Uta Wehn de Montalvo

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138716073
• ISBN 13: 9781138716070
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 294