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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";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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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Jim Dickerson<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> 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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#009933"><a 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 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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Brian Huberty<br>
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