<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>(talking crap) I'm sure congress would consider something form the ESRI sales team. ( .... no I'm not going to "/" this out...)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "Dickerson, Jim (ADM)" <jim.dickerson@state.mn.us><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "Brian_Huberty@fws.gov" <Brian_Huberty@fws.gov>; "tcmuG@lists.osgeo.org" <tcmuG@lists.osgeo.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday,
May 15, 2012 9:24 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: [TCMUG] Congressional Research Service April 27, 2012 Report: Issues and Challenges for Federal Geospatial Information<br> </font> </div> <br>
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<div class="yiv1952779747MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">Interesting reading (not really). I’m pretty leery of moves to consolidate and standardize GIS data at a national or even state level. I would say it’s a
solution for which there is no problem, but it isn’t even a solution, just a vague idea. Both documents include, verbatim, the paragraph suggesting Congress ‘may consider’ ‘how a national GIS could be conceived’. Yikes!
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<div class="yiv1952779747MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">Jim Dickerson</span></b></div>
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<div class="yiv1952779747MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> tcmug-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:tcmug-bounces@lists.osgeo.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Brian_Huberty@fws.gov<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 14, 2012 4:40 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> tcmuG@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [TCMUG] Congressional Research Service April 27, 2012 Report: Issues and Challenges for Federal Geospatial Information</span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><span style="color:#009933;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41826.pdf">www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41826.pdf</a></span><br>
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or here:<br>
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<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.fgdc.gov/library/whitepapers-reports/CRS_Reports/CRS-Geospatial-issues-1-23-10.pdf"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;">http://www.fgdc.gov/library/whitepapers-reports/CRS_Reports/CRS-Geospatial-issues-1-23-10.pdf</span></a><span style="font-size:13.5pt;">
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worth reading....<br>
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