The positive effects of governments using Google Maps and Earth to share their geospatial data are many, this post address a specific question: "What's the process for licensing our geospatial data to Google?" There’re three steps to licensing--or granting Google the legal rights--to publish your organization's geospatial data on our services:

• Tell us about your organization and the data you have to share
• Sign our content license agreement
• Provide the content to Google.