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Promoting the National Spatial Data Infrastructure Through Partnerships

Mapping Science Committee

Board on Earth Sciences and Resources

Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources

National Research Council

NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Washington, D.C.
1994

Suggested Citation:"FRONT MATTER." National Research Council. 1994. Promoting the National Spatial Data Infrastructure Through Partnerships. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/4895.
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NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate balance.

This report has been reviewed by a group other than the authors according to procedures approved by a Report Review Committee consisting of members of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.

Support for this study by the Mapping Science Committee was provided by the Defense Mapping Agency, the United States Geological Survey, the Bureau of Land Management, and the Bureau of the Census.

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MAPPING SCIENCE COMMITTEE

LARRY J. SUGARBAKER,

Washington State Department of Natural Resources, Olympia,

Chairman

LAWRENCE F. AYERS,

Intergraph Corporation, Reston, VA,

Vice-Chairman

HUGH N. ARCHER,

Plan Graphics, Inc., Frankfort, KY

WILLIAM M. BROWN,

Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, Ann Arbor

BARBARA P. BUTTENFIELD,

State University of New York, Buffalo

MICHAEL W. DOBSON,

Rand McNally and Company, Skokie, IL

FREDERICK J. DOYLE, McLean, VA (retired, U.S. Geological Survey)

MICHAEL J. FOLK,

University of Illinois, Urbana

LEE C. GERHARD,

Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence

MICHAEL F. GOODCHILD,

University of California, Santa Barbara

STANLEY K. HONEY,

The News Corporation, Ltd., Los Angeles

TERRENCE J. KEATING,

Autometrics, Inc., Bangor, ME

MICHAEL D. MARVIN,

Map Info Corporation, Troy, NY

SARA L. McLAFFERTY,

Hunter College, New York, NY

KAREN C. SIDERELIS,

North Carolina Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, Raleigh

ROBERT TUFTS,

TASC, Reston, VA

NANCY VON MEYER,

Fairview Industries, Middleton, WI

Staff

THOMAS M. USSELMAN, Senior Staff Officer

JUDITH L. ESTEP, Administrative Assistant

Members Who Completed Their Terms on December 31, 1993

JOHN D. BOSSLER,

The Ohio State University, Columbus,

Chairman

ROBERT LEE CHARTRAND,

Naples, Florida (retired, Congressional Research Service)

DONALD F. COOKE,

Geographic Data Technology, Inc., Lyme, NH

GIULIO MAFFINI,

SHL Systemhouse, Inc., Toronto, Canada

JOHN D. McLAUGHLIN,

University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

BERNARD J. NIEMANN, JR.,

University of Wisconsin, Madison

GERARD RUSHTON,

University of Iowa, Iowa City

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BOARD ON EARTH SCIENCES AND RESOURCES

FREEMAN GILBERT, Chair,

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA

GAIL M. ASHLEY,

Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

THURE CERLING,

University of Utah, Salt Lake City

MARK P. CLOOS,

University of Texas at Austin

NEVILLE G.W. COOK,

University of California, Berkeley

JOEL DARMSTADTER,

Resources for the Future, Washington, DC

DONALD J. DEPAOLO,

University of California, Berkeley

MARCO EINAUDI,

Stanford University, Stanford, CA

NORMAN H. FOSTER,

Independent Petroleum Geologist, Denver, CO

CHARLES G. GROAT,

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

DONALD C. HANEY,

Kentucky Geological Survey, Lexington

ANDREW H. KNOLL,

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

PHILIP E. LAMOREAUX,

P.E. LaMoreaux and Associates, Inc., Tuscaloosa, AL

SUSAN LANDON,

Thomasson Partner Associates, Denver, CO

MARCIA K. MCNUTT,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

J. BERNARD MINSTER,

University of California, San Diego

JILL D. PASTERIS,

Washington University, St. Louis, MO

EDWARD C. ROY, JR.,

Trinity University, San Antonio, TX

Staff

JONATHAN G. PRICE, Staff Director

THOMAS M. USSELMAN, Associate Staff Director

WILLIAM E. BENSON, Senior Program Officer

KEVIN CROWLEY, Program Officer

BRUCE B. HANSHAW, Program Officer

ANNE LINN, Program Officer

LALLY A. ANDERSON, Staff Assistant

CHARLENE ANDERSON, Administrative Assistant

JUDITH L. ESTEP, Administrative Assistant

SHELLEY MYERS, Project Assistant

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COMMISSION ON GEOSCIENCES, ENVIRONMENT, AND RESOURCES

M. GORDON WOLMAN,

The Johns Hopkins University,

Chairman,

Baltimore, MD

PATRICK R. ATKINS,

Aluminum Company of America, Pittsburgh, PA

EDITH BROWN WEISS,

Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC

JAMES P. BRUCE,

Canadian Climate Program Board, Ontario

WILLIAM L. FISHER,

The University of Texas at Austin

EDWARD A. FRIEMAN,

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA

GEORGE M. HORNBERGER,

University of Virginia, Charlottesville

W. BARCLAY KAMB,

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

PERRY L. McCARTY,

Stanford University, Stanford, CA

JUDY L. MEYER,

University of Georgia, Athens

RAYMOND A. PRICE,

Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada

THOMAS C. SCHELLING,

University of Maryland, College Park

ELLEN K. SILBERGELD,

Environmental Defense Fund, Washington, DC

STEVEN M. STANLEY,

The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

VICTORIA J. TSCHINKEL,

Landers and Parson, Tallahassee, FL

WARREN WASHINGTON,

National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO

Staff

STEPHEN RATTIEN, Executive Director

STEPHEN D. PARKER, Associate Executive Director

MORGAN GOPNIK, Assistant Executive Director

JEANETTE SPOON, Administrative Officer

SANDI FITZPATRICK, Administrative Associate

ROBIN ALLEN, Senior Project Assistant

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PREFACE

The Mapping Science Committee serves as a focus for external advice to the federal agencies on scientific and technical matters related to spatial data handling and analysis. The purpose of the committee is to provide advice on the development of a robust national spatial data infrastructure for making informed decisions at all levels of government and throughout society in general.

Within the context of the above mission statement, the committee issued a report in the Spring of 1993, Toward a Coordinated Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Nation, which articulated its vision on how spatial information handling might best be approached from an organizational perspective. There are, of course, many specific issues that are raised when one examines what a National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) encompasses. The committee is undertaking a series of focused studies to examine individual components of the NSDI. This study on partnerships within the NSDI was verbally requested by the Federal Geographic Data Committee (operating under the aegis of the Office of Management and Budget) at a joint meeting with the Mapping Science Committee on February 2, 1993.

A study which addresses the criteria for determining priority geographic data is companion to this study on partnerships. Together, they set the stage for the NSDI which will take our nation into the twenty-first century.

The committee wishes to thank Lisa Warnecke for the compilation of state legislation and authorities concerning spatial data and of the coordination mechanisms within each state.

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