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18 chapter three HOW AIRPORTS AND PUBLIC AGENCIES COLLABORATE Airports and public agencies have found a variety of ways to share geographic information and related resources, many of which are limited, given interpersonal relationships and organizational constraints. Some professionals, however, envision a more official, centralized, online resource that would help organizations identify and access the data they require.
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19 COLLABORATIVE FORUMS GIS professionals often participate in regional meetings, local conferences, user group meetings, etc., which allow them to meet the peers who may have data and other resources, or at least share experiences that can be mutually beneficial. However, many airport GIS professionals reported that they do not participate in these events because they perceive their needs to be different from those of their peers in other local agencies.
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20 arrangements, and policies that enable the discovery and use of geospatial information by users and for purposes other than those it was created for" (Kuhn 2005)
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21 ONLINE DATA EXCHANGE Web-Download/FTP Placing data on secured or public websites for download by means of FTP is a common way of sharing data with a variety of users. Only a few of the sites identified in this report require an authorized account to download specific data, although some do require a digital acceptance of a license or copyright agreement.
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22 is posted and disseminated read-only as it is updated. This eliminates the burden, which many data providers complained about, of making and sending copies to data recipients, who then must periodically request updates.
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23 Web Applications In addition to FTP downloads, WMS, and other data sharing methods, some public agencies are publishing their GIS data within applications provided by vendors who offer SaaS or IaaS. Often these applications allow authorized users to view, but not necessarily download, information.
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