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Every NSDI CAP recipient must complete a final technical report for
projects that recieve a CAP award. In the report they
requested to provide their feedback on the program. Below is a
summary of comments related to the strength and benefits of the
program. These come from final reports that were submitted between
August 19, 2009 and July 31, 2013. The full feedback comments can
be found on the final report links within the individual project
pages.

The funding from the CAP Program is targeted at projects (metadata,
planning, ROI analysis, etc.) which typically are neglected when
government agencies are operating with reduced resources.

The project provided important collaboration experiences and led to
coordination with other states leveraging CAP awards.

Provides a national forum on establishing best practices,
standards, and coordination. The CAP grants are catalysts, providing
important seeding to much larger efforts.

Participation in CAP ensures compliance with FGDC standards rather
than striking off on your own.

The Metadata training program brings to the forefront the
discussion of data credibility and the need to keep the Metadata
current in order to prove that the data your sharing is accurate and
from reliable source.

The CAP program allows us to conduct metadata training for groups
that otherwise would not be served. The Native American GIS community
in the southwest is chronically short of training
opportunities.

The program promotes community building.

The CAP provided opportunity to try new technologies and
approaches.

The Fifty States Initiative is a coordinated vision with clear a
process and goals/objectives and the materials are very
accessible.

The CAP affords a break from routine activities for strategic and
business planning that otherwise might not take place.

The project provided the ability to better understand the GIS
Community around the State.

Made it possible for Mississippi to compile information on the
state of the adoption and use of geospatial technologies at the county
level and integrate the findings into the recently completed State GIS
strategic plan.

The Appalachian Ohio Geospatial Data Partnership was given the
opportunity to build a partnership with the FGDC Cadastral
Subcommittee.

Although the funding is relatively small, the CAP award helped
Idaho achieve milestones in the State's SDI strategic plan.

The "selling" of $1.1M geocoding project was a direct result of the
previous planning CAP Iowa received from FGDC.

Federal support of these types of initiatives [for building data
stewardship] lends credibility to the use of unfamiliar technologies to
solve existing problems with data sharing.

CAP does a great job stimulating efforts and is very useful for
‘seed’ type projects that foster collaborative relationships.

CAP helps support and advance local projects and programs to
identify best practices that can potentially have a wider regional or
national impact.

Provided are great opportunity to build an innovative service for
the community without cumbersome restrictions about sharing the
technology and making it publicly available. There was a latitude of
freedom to create iterative innovations and expand the project as we
developed the concepts.

The greatest program strength is that it exists and creates the
opportunity for States to contribute to the national effort of
collaboration and data sharing. It allowed us to develop relationships
with local data providers, which in turn provides a pathway to move
authoritative local data to the NSDI.

The mixture of government, enterprise, and academic teams was also
very beneficial.

The FGDC CAP program has proven over the years to be a good vehicle
for State and local agencies to partner with software developers and
spatial system integrators to explore new technology that would not
normally be available.

The program has helped develop key elements of the NSDI and more
operational resources are now available to the user community as a
result of CAP. The program has been consistent in its support of
standards-based services over the last few years and this focus is now
yielding tangible results across the NSDI.

The CAP project helped the Indiana to be positioned to implement
its Geosynchronization Suite for NHD GNIS Names, Broadband Mapping and
potentially other statewide data sets.

CAP “seed” funding is essential to having States carry out
strategic and business plans. Without the CAP funds, these activities
would be unlikely to occur.

The program provides seed funding for collaborative geospatial data
sharing projects.

The strengths include the programs adherence to, promotion of, and
support for development of geospatial data standards. The concept of a
“federal standard” carries weight among State and local geospatial
practitioners who want to do the right thing and are grateful for the
thinking, definitions, and framework achieved at the federal
level.

The program is very operable and is directly linked to real
applications across a wide-range of communities.

From our perspective, that of a small business with considerable
experience in developing and implementing geospatial interoperability
standards, the CAP provides a vehicle for engaging government customers
that might otherwise be reluctant to try new approaches in developing
geospatial solutions.

The NSDI Cooperative Agreements Program provided an opportunity for
Indiana University computer science researchers to work with applied
science researchers and water science practitioners on an initiative
that has real world implications annually in much of the U.S. The
program provides for the injection of new technologies and approaches
into the geospatial community. The grant provided both research
challenges and important collaboration experiences.

The CAP provides an incentive to conduct research that is critical
to realizing the full vision of the NSDI at the local and regional
levels.

If the question is “Where does the CAP Program make a difference?”
the answer in Hawaii is that the funding allowed HIGICC to bring the
geospatial community together for this special project at the Council’s
10th anniversary.

The Fifty States Initiative project made a difference and
influenced statewide coordination in Maine.

The program has been invaluable to the State of New Jersey and OGIS
in particular. The revision to the strategic business plan will help us
to efficiently organize and prioritize our activities so they can be
carried out in a reasoned and effective manner on behalf of the
geospatial user community in New Jersey.

The necessary resources to fulfill a comprehensive strategic
planning effort could not have been accomplished without efforts of the
CAP through the partnership with FGDC and USGS.

This project and the Business Plan that resulted from it would not
likely have occurred if not for the CAP grant funding. Grant funding
provided the impetus to move the effort of creating a statewide parcel
data layer forward.

The CAP project allowed for the completion of the Coastal and
Marine Ecological Classification Standard.

The CAP Program plays a vital role in disseminating requisite
information to the wetlands mapping standards user community.

Exposure and utilization of Utah’s road centerline dataset have
been greatly enhanced as a result of the project.

The CAP program provides a point around which often disparate
organizations or interests can come together for an explicit purpose
over a well-defined period of time.

The strength of the program comes from the varied types of grants
that are available in order to assist with advancement of GIS
initiatives and programs.

One of the most productive results of developing these plans is
often coalescing a community around GIS coordination within States,
regardless of what the plans say. Of course, the next question is what
concrete changes do these planning efforts bring.

The greatest strength of the program is that it exists and
consistently helps move different groups and States in the right
general direction.

NSDI CAP program is one of the few sources that provide funds for
education, collaboration, and technical expertise transfer
activities.

Helped awardee leverage additional funding. A federal grant helps
provide moral authority.

The program serves as a catalyst to get necessary work
accomplished.

The program provided a forum in which our workshop could be
advertised to a larger community than what we could reach.

We feel this program makes a difference because most of the money
in this program goes to grass-roots efforts to improve GIS work in our
State. This work provides tangible results, as evidenced by the 36
people who received GIS training, the couple dozen data layers that we
checked out for metadata integrity, in addition to the countless GIS
data layers in the future that will be better as a result of our
workshop. Most of the attendees worked for local cities, counties and
organizations. The knowledge and skills learned in these workshops and
through the CAP programs directly affect GIS professionals everywhere
and in turn the people they serve on an everyday basis.

The FGDC category lead’s format for meetings and communications
facilitated collaborations.

The Fifty States Initiative web site and resources from other
states helped this team achieving the vision set out in this plan.

NSDI CAP is one of the best-managed federal programs the team has
participated in. CAP award decisions are made quickly.

The assistance of the USGS and FGDC was extremely helpful and
timely.

Support from FGDC staff has always been excellent. Contact Us
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