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... 17671-17674~. At the time of the 1994 Executive Order, the NSDI was still an unfamiliar concept to many in the geospatial data community.
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... it recommended the restructuring and consolidation of basic geographic information functions into a new Geographic Data Service, and the creation of a new private, non-profit organization, the National Spatial Data Council, to complement the federal functions of the Federal Geographic Data Committee (Box 2~. To date, no formal actions have been taken to implement the NAPA proposals.
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