# Presentation: 129794

## Government / Industry InitiativesThe National Spatial Data Infrastructure

- Mark Reichardt
- Federal Geographic Data Committee
- Digital Earth Community Meeting
- Oracle Corporation
- Reston, Virginia
- 2 May 2000

## The National Spatial Data Infrastructure

- Partnerships – local/national/global
- Standards
- Metadata
- Clearinghouse (catalog)
- Geodata
- Community applications
- Outreach, education, assistance

## Organization & Partnerships

- Federal Geographic Data Committee Steering Committee, Coordination Group, and Working Groups provide the forum for policy and technical discussion
- Some of the major stakeholders & partners – Federal, State, local, and tribal governments; Open GIS Consortium, UCGIS, International, National Biological Information Infrastructure
- Expanding Global Outreach to promote compatibility across borders / globally

## Who Is Involved?

**National League of Cities ****	****National Association of Counties**
**Intertribal GIS Council****	****	****University Consortium on GI Sciences**
**Open GIS Consortium****	****	****FGDC**
**National States Geographic Information Council  **
**International City / County Managers Association**

**Notes:**
The NSDI has a network of stakeholders: federal, state, local, and tribal governments and associations.  The NSDI also has stakeholders from the academic community, and has a relationship with the Open GIS Consortium, which presently represents over 200 members of government, industry and academia in advancing interoperability of geographic processing. 

## NSDI Community Demonstration Projects

- <date/time>

- Tijuana River Watershed
- (Commerce)

- Tillamook County, OR
- (Interior)

- City of Baltimore
- (Justice)

- Upper Susquehanna/Lackawanna
- River Watershed
- (EPA)

- Gallatin County, MT
- (Interior)

- Dane County, WI
- (Agriculture)

**Notes:**
Six communities across the country, in partnership with the Federal Government, have undertaken GIS projects to demonstrate the power of geographic information in solving issues in their communities.  This slide shows the location of the demonstrations and identifies the Federal Agency or Department that is “championing” the project within the Federal sector.  The Department of the Interior is coordinating the overall activity through the Federal Geographic Data Committee, which is chaired by Secretary Babbitt.  The following slides will briefly describe each project.

## NSDI Clearinghouse Growth

- Number of sites

## Current NSDI Focus Areas

- National Organization “Geodata Alliance”
- Significantly expanded multi sector leadership
- Plan by October 2000
- NSDI Financing Study
- Public / private alternatives for advancing the NSDI
- Data Consortia, underwritten by pooled financing
- Reduce duplication, increase quality
- Expanded International Outreach
- International / global collaboration
- Global Spatial Data Infrastructure
- Open Geoprocessing

## Place - Underpins E-Government, E-Commerce, E-Communities

- Many services and data are locational
- Devices are becoming location aware
- Taxpayers want ease of use and responsive service
- “Place” therefore is a core element for e-government

## Location, Location, Location..

- Based on where I am right now:
- Who can answer my garden soil problems?
- Where should I send my tax return?
- Where are the hazardous waste sites relative to my location right now?
- What parks are available to me within a 4 hour drive?
- Where can I apply for a passport?
- What funding opportunities and service providers are available for my issue?

## Concept of a Global Spatial Data Infrastructure on the Internet: Data standards, metadata, open geoprocessing, other services

**Businesses**

**s**

**Citizens**

**s**

**Government**

**s**

**Imagery**

**Web-Enabled **
**Services**

**Service**

**Registry**

**Internet**

**Elevation**

**Hydrography**

**Demographics**

**Health**

**Geodetic**
**Control**

**Transportation**

**Internet**

**E-Commerce**
**Authentication**
**Security**

**Metadata**

**Metadata**

**Metadata**

**Metadata**

**Metadata**

**Metadata**

**Metadata**

**Crime**

**Environment**

**Map Services**
**Catalog Services**

**Weather**

**Housing**

**Tax**

**Notes:**
Combine the successes to date with open technology protocols, catalog services, map services, and other registered WWW services, and we could see a near term future of greatly enhanced applications that can search, access, and exploit a vastly expanded world of geographic data.  

None of this could have happened without the focused efforts of national spatial data infrastructures working together toward a core set of common goals.  

	Standards
	Best Practices
	Clearinghouses
	Metadata

## What’s Important

- Pervasive partnerships to encourage policy and technical discussion at all levels, all sectors
- Strong linkages to and leadership by private sector for solutions and services
- Users participative throughout the process
- “Place” as an integral component
- Pilots aligned with a common cause