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Research and Development in the National Mapping Division, USGS Trends and Prospects (1991) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
Pages 4-7

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... The committee recognizes that the Geologic Division and the Water Resources Division of the USGS also conduct a substantial amount of research using GIS and other techniques, but we did not attempt to analyze the applications research components of these two divisions. Over the years, NMD's R&D orientation has been focused more toward the applied, operational system development aspects of the cartographic process central to its major mission, producing a wide variety of printed maps, and it 4
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... In our previous report, the committee identified the critical need for a coordinated and efficient national spatial information "infrastructure" to facilitate sharing and communicating spatial information resources. Future map making will be just one aspect of a larger enterprise~ne focused on acquiring, manipulating, and distributing spatial data in various forms to solve problems and meet various spatial information needs.
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... ~icsandDi - ~utionManagement logistic, circulation, and distribution managers, dispatchers, and schedulers; the postal service; private package and document delivery services; over-the-road freight haulers; and logistical support agencies of the US. Department of Defense and other governmental agencies.
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... NMD is currently aligning its research plans within seven initiatives and its development activities in six categories. For each, a single coordinator is responsible for advising NMD management of the activities and suggesting areas that need further attention.
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