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Spatial Data Needs: The Future of the National Mapping Program

Mapping Science Committee

Board on Earth Sciences and Resources

Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources

National Research Council

NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Washington, D.C.
1990

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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.

The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit, self-perpetuating society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare. Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a mandate that requires it to advise the federal government on scientific and technical matters. Dr. Frank Press is president of the National Academy of Sciences.

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The National Research Council was organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and technology with the Academy’s purposes of furthering knowledge and of advising the federal government. Functioning in accordance with general policies determined by the Academy, the Council has become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Frank Press and Dr. Robert M.White are chairman and vice chairman, respectively, of the National Research Council.

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MAPPING SCIENCE COMMITTEE

THOMAS C.FINNIE, Consultant,

Gilbertsville, Kentucky,

Chairman

JOHN C.ANTENUCCI,

PlanGraphics, Inc.

JOHN D.BOSSLER,

Ohio State University

DAVID J.COWEN,

University of South Carolina

JOHN E.ESTES,

University of California, Santa Barbara

ROBERT D.JOHNSON,

Petroleum Information, Inc.

HENRY PEREZ*,

The H.M.Gousha Company, Inc.

BARBARA B.PETCHENIK,

R.R.Donnelley & Sons Company

HUGO F.THOMAS,

Connecticut Natural Resources Center

C.DANA TOMLIN,

Harvard University and Ohio State University

THOMAS J.WILBANKS,

Oak Ridge National Laboratories

Staff

THOMAS M.USSELMAN

U.S. Geological Survey Liaison Representatives

JOEL L.MORRISON

LOWELL E.STARR

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Resigned from the committee in May 1989 due to other commitments.

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BOARD ON EARTH SCIENCES AND RESOURCES

WILLIAM L.FISHER,

University of Texas,

Co-Chairman

BRIAN J.SKINNER,

Yale University,

Co-Chairman

SAMUEL S.ADAMS,

Colorado School of Mines

KEIITI AKI,

University of Southern California

ALBERT W.BALLY,

Rice University

JAMES R.BAROFFIO,

Chevron Corporation

SANDRA L.BLACKSTONE,

University of Denver

DONALD J.DEPAOLO,

University of California, Berkeley

GORDON P.EATON,

Iowa State University

W.GARY ERNST,

Stanford University

PRISCILLA C.GREW,

Minnesota Geological Survey

ROBERT N.GINSBURG,

University of Miami

ALEXANDER F.H.GOETZ,

University of Colorado

HARRISON C.JAMISON, Consultant,

Sunriver, Oregon

THOMAS H.JORDAN,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

CAREL OTTE, JR.,

Unocal Corporation

FRANK M.RICHTER,

University of Chicago

J.J.SIMMONS, III,

Interstate Commerce Commission

STEVEN M.STANLEY,

Johns Hopkins University

IRVIN L.WHITE,

New York State Energy Research and Development Authority

Staff

ROBERT S.LONG, Staff Director

BETTY C.GUYOT, Staff Associate

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COMMISSION ON PHYSICAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICS, AND RESOURCES

NORMAN HACKERMAN,

Robert A.Welch Foundation,

Chairman

ROBERT C.BEARDSLEY,

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

B.CLARK BURCHFIEL,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

GEORGE F.CARRIER,

Harvard University

RALPH J.CICERONE,

University of California, Irvine

HERBERT D.DOAN,

The Dow Chemical Company (retired)

PETER S.EAGLESON,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DEAN E.EASTMAN,

IBM, T.J.Watson Research Center

MARYE ANN FOX,

University of Texas

GERHART FRIEDLANDER,

Brookhaven National Laboratory

LAWRENCE W.FUNKHOUSER,

Chevron Corporation (retired)

PHILLIP A.GRIFFITHS,

Duke University

NEAL F.LANE,

Rice University

CHRISTOPHER F.McKEE,

University of California, Berkeley

RICHARD S.NICHOLSON,

American Association for the Advancement of Science

JACK E.OLIVER,

Cornell University

JEREMIAH P.OSTRIKER,

Princeton University Observatory

PHILIP A.PALMER,

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.

FRANK L.PARKER,

Vanderbilt University

DENIS J.PRAGER,

MacArthur Foundation

DAVID M.RAUP,

University of Chicago

ROY F.SCHWITTERS,

Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory

LARRY L.SMARR,

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

KARL K.TUREKIAN,

Yale University

MYRON F.UMAN, Acting Executive Director

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PREFACE

Upon request of the director of the U.S. Geological Survey, a committee (the Mapping Science Committee) was established in 1987 to provide guidance to the USGS on mapping and geography issues. In the request, the suggested initial charges to the committee were the following:

  1. Examine the needs for the geographic and cartographic data provided by the USGS. Do the Survey’s current mapping activities and products adequately address these needs?

  2. Examine and advise on USGS programs of research and development of hardware and software for original data acquisition, processing, storing, marketing, and distribution of digital cartographic data and synthesized information products to the user community.

  3. Examine the scope and content of the USGS’s activities in geographic information systems (GIS) and recommend their role in assembling and maintaining digital data bases from within the USGS and from other sources.

  4. Respond to specific requests for guidance on mapping and geography.

This report was prepared to address the first and third of these charges in a specific fashion, and to provide general guidance on the second. Future committee efforts will be directed toward the second, and, as requested, the fourth charge. This selection was made because of time constraints on the committee and because the committee felt that it was necessary to address user requirements and GIS involvement before research programs could be adequately addressed.

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At three separate meetings between July 1987 and May 1988, the committee received briefings from the USGS on its programs and policies, and from other agencies on their use of USGS's products and data and onany collaborative efforts. The committee recognized significant overlap among the first three charges. It approached the task by forming two subgroups on slightly different ends of the spectrum represented by the tasks. One subgroup examined these charges as they affect the user community, the other looked at the specific component of geographic information systems and digital cartography. Both subgroups met during the fall of 1988 for further investigation and the initial drafting of their respective sections of the report. The subgroup draft sections were considered at a meeting in February 1989, where the two sections were combined into this report. The committee also met in April 1989 to further consider the contents of the report, and an editorial subgroup met on August 1989 to consolidate the committee's comments into this report. (Detailed agendas for these meetings are given in Appendix A.)

The committee wishes to thank all of those who contributed information for its deliberations, both the USGS staff and officials from other federal agencies.

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