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标题：The US National Spatial Data Infrastructure: What is new?
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作者：Alan R. Stevens
期刊名称：ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2194-9042
电子版ISSN：2194-9050
出版年度：2005
卷号：XXXVI-4/W6
页码：313-318
出版社：Copernicus Publications
摘要：Initially the US Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) and the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) major development focus has been almost completely at the federal level. With time and much promotion, FGDC's vision has found its way into states and local governments. The central focus of the NSDI is carried into the current political administration through the President's management agenda consisting of 25 major programs with a vision to improve the federal government's value to the citizen by an order of magnitude. The challenge is to make information, data and decisions available in minutes or hours, not weeks or months to other government agencies and the general public. This e-government (E-gov) is focused on using digital technologies to transform government operations in order to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and service delivery. Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) grew from this vision and raises the visibility of the strategic value of geographic information. It is another mechanism to accelerate the NSDI development in the US. Specifically it is to build framework data standards, breathe life into portal development, accelerate data inventory, and promote data and its application throughout the marketplace. Concurrently, the FGDC, the NSDI and GOS began to look strategically at the next steps in the evolution of the NSDI. International examples of infrastructure development have been examined and the strategy has been formulated with three principal goals: creating partnerships with purpose, making framework real, and communicating the message. The major message is that in order to create a truly national spatial data infrastructure, one needs to involve the people and data at the day-to-day working level – cities, counties, and utilities. New and different policies and partnerships need to be developed before all meaningful data can be made available for critical decision making. This massive effort involves components of the US Federal Government as well as State, County, City, and community Governments. The team also has considerable input from NGOs and the private sector. Early findings indicate that it is critical to build a formal national council involving all potential generators, users, and distributors in the public and private sectors. This plan is being reviewed at the current time and will yield a completely new approach to building the US NSDI