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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Great initiative and example from colleagues at </span>
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> on providing</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">access to interactive maps, satellite imagery and related spatial databases maintained by FAO and its partners. Through this website FAO facilitates multidisciplinary approaches to sustainable development and supports decision
making in agriculture, forestry, fisheries and food security.</span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Maps, including those derived from satellite imagery, are effective communicational tools and play an important role in the work of various types of users:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10px; line-height:normal; font-family:Menlo"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Decision Makers: e.g. Sustainable development planners and humanitarian and emergency managers in need of quick, reliable and up to date user-friendly
cartographic products as a basis for action and better plan and monitor their activities.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
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<span style="font-size:10px; line-height:normal; font-family:Menlo"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">GIS Experts in need of exchanging consistent and updated geographical data.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
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<span style="font-size:10px; line-height:normal; font-family:Menlo"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Spatial Analysts in need of multidisciplinary data to perform preliminary geographical analysis and reliable forecasts to better set up appropriate interventions
in vulnerable areas.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></li></ul>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">The FAO GeoNetwork allows to easily share spatial data among different FAO Units, other UN Agencies, NGO's and other institutions.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">The FAO GeoNetwork site is powered by GeoNetwork opensource. GeoNetwork opensource has been developed to connect spatial information communities and their data using a modern architecture, which is at the same time powerful and
low cost, based on the principles of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and International and Open Standards for services and protocols (from ISO/TC211 and OGC).</span></p>
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<span style="color:#454545"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Details at </span><a href="http://www.fao.org/geonetwork/srv/en/main.home" id="LPlnk112426" previewremoved="true"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">http://www.fao.org/geonetwork/srv/en/main.home</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Best wishes,</span></p>
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