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2 THE NATIONAL SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE
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... ; data management and storage; more effective analysis and decision making (manual analysis of paper maps is exceedingly tedious and costly) ; and faster access to current data (changes are available to all users in near real time)
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... . Transparent access to myriad data bases could provicle the information for countless applications, e.g., facility management, real estate transactions, taxation, lancl-use planning, transportation, emergency services, environmental assessment and monitoring, and research.
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... as "the total ensemble of geographic information at our disposal that describes the arrangement and attributes of features and phenomena on the Earth, as well as the materials, technology and people necessary to acquire, process, store and distribute such information to meet a wide variety of needs." In its broadest sense, the infrastructure also inclucles the cultural, environmental, economic, political, legal, and educational values and institutions that support, facilitate, and shape its character, including the forms in which spatial data are represented and utilized throughout society. The MSC's concept of the NSDI is illustrated .
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... The recommendations of that report follow: i. Effective national policies, strategies and organizational structures need to be established at the federal level for the integration of national spatial data collection, use, and distribution.
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... 4. A spatial data sharing program should be established to enrich national spatial ciata coverage, minimize redundant data collection at all levels, and create new opportunities for the use of spatial data throughout the nation.
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... The data framework needed to support NSDI will be addressed in a companion report The National Spatial Data Infrastructure: The Foundation Data, which is in preparation. This report promotes a concept that partnerships are valid means to develop these data sets and are essential to achieve longer-term NSDT objectives.
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... NOTES Realizing the Information Future: The Internet and Beyond, 1994, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 320 pp. Toward a Coordinated Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Nation, 1993, Mapping Science Committee, National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 171 pp.
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