Sharing of geospatial data can be hindered or inhibited by several types of barriers. These include technological barriers, such as a lack of common data definitions, formats and models or incompatibility of hardware and software. Among the non-technological barriers are organizational, political and legal issues and elements, such as misaligned organizational missions, diversity in organizational cultures, conflicting organizational priorities, lack of funding, lack of executive and legislative support; restrictive laws and regulations, copyright issues, data privacy and data ownership issues. However, it should be noticed that many of these barriers have been decreased or eliminated in recent years.