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Purpose
Providing leadership to place geographic knowledge at the fingertips of the Nation
Vision
By June 30, 2006, transform the processes of Government necessary to implement key components of the
National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI)
Mission
- Providing leadership and guidance for key stakeholders
- Facilitate policy development
- Provide incentives
- Facilitate the development of key standards and data models
- Coordinate and facilitate the governance structure for the NSDI
- Negotiate collaborative agreements with stakeholders
- Facilitate the development of a national Geospatial Enterprise Architecture
- Provide a forum for technology transfer, best practices, and program guidance
- Implementing key components of the NSDI
- Produce map products
- Host spatial datasets, Web sites, knowledge base, and tools for discovery and access
- Data integration and quality assurance of spatial data
- Staff enterprise architecture, governance body, and spatial operations
- Conduct and sponsor research for geospatial information science
- Contract management
- Training, education, and consultation
- Data producer of last resort
- News Release:
USGS establishes National Geospatial Program Office
- Office Contacts
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