National Spatial Data Infrastructure Partnership Programs Rethinking the Focus (2001) / Chapter Skim
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The development of Visa International was based on the need to develop a functional operating organization amongst an extensive set of loosely linked activities in the marketplace. Similarly, a GeoData Alliance could create a more structured organization within what is presently a fairly chaotic and disorganized set of players in the geospatial data arena.
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It is interesting to note that one of the recommended practices is to create or support transactional systems that would focus on framework data. At the same time, one of the guiding principles in the creation of the GeoData Alliance is that "Geographic information has inherent value and the creators of that value should be equitably compensated." This raises perhaps the most difficult obstacle that the NSDT concept faces.
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Indications are that the FGDC involvement in the GSDT setting will lead to a more coherent organization of several of the nation's international spatial data efforts such as Digital Earth, Global Map, the Global Disaster Information Network, and the United Nations Environmental Programme.
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