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... Conservative extrapolation from the sampled population of map users indicates the number of geoscience maps used annually in the United States is in excess of 5 million. Industry relies upon itself for 38 percent of the maps it uses and upon federal agencies for 27 percent and state agencies for 18 percent.
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... For the future, of the 10 most important provinces, the Gulf Coastal Plain dropped to third position; six of the top 10 are in the Basin Range-Rocky Mountain provinces; seventh and eighth are in the Midcontinent; and the Appalachian Fold and Thrust Belt was elevated to tenth position. For planners, engineering geologists, geohydrologists, and those involved in hazard mitigation, the tectonically active Pacific Coastal area states ranked highest in future importance.
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... The responses centered on the needs for additional highquality ground truth data, for a ready and inexpensive means for data manipulation, for development of improved ways to portray and present map and map-based data, or for a ready means to determine where map-related data reside and how they can be accessed. Overall, respondents, representing a wide spectrum of users, clearly attached a high level of importance to geoscience maps and foresaw a significant increase in the need for such maps in the future.
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