Policy Issues in Modern Cartography

National mapping as a business-like enterprise; spatial data policy and pricing in the United States; digital data, copyright, commercialization and related issues - a Canadian perspective; availability and pricing of georeferenced data in Asia Pacific; copyright law issues in modern cartography; the protection and availability of digital cartographic information and products; legal protection of geographic databases - the viewpoint of the Institut Geographique National, France; a private sector perspective; tragedy of the information commons; availability of geospatial data through libraries in the United States; modern cartography, policy issues and the developing nations - rhetroic and reality; professional responsibility and ethics in the spatial sciences; the three Rs of GIS-based site selection - representation, resistance and ridicule; why GIS needs postmodern social theory, and vice versa; conclusion -some remaining challenges.