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... By comparison, the Of rice of Management and Budget estimated that total federal expenditures on digital geospatial data activities in ~ 993 amounted to approximately $4 billion, and total sales of GTS software in these years were in the hundreds of millions. To emphasize this point, a recent commentary estimated the total worldwide expenditure on GIS and related activities was of the order of $ ~ 5 billion to $20 billion (Longley et al., 2001; p.
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... 1~. Even though the funding level for these projects was more substantial than in the previous FGDC effort, the amounts remain small in comparison with the size of the geospatial data user community.
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