Building a National GIS

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Man forsøger og har længe forsøgt at samle GIS data i Europa og det har vist sig, ikke overraskende, at være en stor opgave. Det vigtige her er dog at man har bestemt sig for at gøre det og gør det. På sigt vil man helt sikkert se fordelene og man vil alle blive glade for den samlede europæiske GIS løsning ... Held og lykke USA ...
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Europe has tried and struggled for some time now to gather and standardize GIS data across borders and by no surprise it has shown to be a great bit task. The important thing to observe is that there has been will and work behind it and we will all some time in the future gain back the advantage of a collective European GIS solution ... Good luck USA ...
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Jack Dangermond, ESRI, jdangermond@esri.com

Anne Hale Miglarese, Booz Allen Hamilton, Miglarese_anne@bah.com

Summary

America’s financial crisis, the worst since the end of World War II, will force difficult actions and decisions. Large expenditures of taxpayer money must be designed to yield products of long-term benefit to the country. America has an information economy, and a robust geospatial infrastructure (system of digital maps and tools) is just as vital to its continued development as was the physical infrastructure to the industrial economy. A National GIS, properly designed and effectively implemented, providing public access and using best technologies, will speed economic recovery by producing jobs and putting shovels in the ground more quickly. It will also leave the country with a public utility, a modern geospatial information system, that itself can become a foundation for new generations of industries and technologies in the future.

Proposal

The Stimulus Plan being developed by Congress and the incoming Obama Administration is an enormous undertaking to revive the American economy. Potentially, it will involve thousands of infrastructure and other projects intended to create jobs and restart economic growth while producing things of lasting value to American taxpayers. The challenge to properly manage and execute this effort will be daunting, requiring unprecedented access to data and information at all levels of government and the private sector. This is the moment for America to build a national Geographic Information System (GIS), that is, a unified, up-to-date, publicly-accessible national digital map, enriched with data from all available sources, and supported by GIS technology. This system can be built quickly, immediately creating high tech jobs, and will serve as a public resource for project planners to support transportation infrastructure, water resource management, alternative energy research, and project siting. It will also provide a foundation for monitoring the US economic recovery across our communities, allowing activities to get underway as soon as possible and leaving a legacy for the future. [...]

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Read more: http://www.geotechcenter.org/National_GIS_proposal_1-09.pdf

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