He is co-editor of the GSDI publication "Spatial data infrastructure and policy development in Europe and the United States" and has published and presented on a variety of other legal and policy related topics including: the role of access policies in the development of SDIs, the impact of data policies for scientific research, development of spatial data infrastructures, legal and organisational aspects of local land use plans, and the legal (im)possibilities of the introduction of electronic means within the Dutch National Land Registry and Cadastre. 

For several MSc courses in the Netherlands, he teaches on Funding mechanisms for GII. Bastiaan participates the GSDI legal and economic working group and has created a searchable database with SDI-related and freely accessible literature (see http://www.otb.tudelft.nl/NGII). He has a special research interest in the harmonisation of geographic information infrastructures in general and land administration more specifically.