URISA welcomed as an FGDC partner.(newsline)(Urban and Regional...

Point of Beginning;  March 1, 2005 ;     213 words ......stakeholder on the Steering Committee of the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC). The FGDC is a long-standing national consortium...infrastructure concept is to promote consistent means of sharing geographic data to produce significant savings for data collection and...

Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC).(introduces Cooperative...

GEO World;  July 1, 2005 ;     42 words ...Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) introduced a 2005 Cooperative Agreements Program for the National Geospatial Programs Office of the U.S. Geological Survey to provide seed funds to assist organizations in work with geospatial information technology. www.fgdc.gov

Proposals requested for Spatial Data projects.(GOVERNMENTCONNECTION)

GEO World;  February 1, 2007 ;     191 words ...The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) issued a request for proposals to support the 2007 National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Cooperative Agreements Program...project is expected to build and improve infrastructure necessary to effectively discover, ...

Open Geospatial Consortium Inc.(PEOPLELINK)

GEO World;  September 1, 2005 ;     38 words ...Doug Nebert received the Open Geospatial Consortium Inc. Kenneth G. Gardels Award. Nebert is the clearinghouse coordinator at the U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee and a principal organizer of the first Web Map Testbed. www.opengeospatial.org

The Council for Excellence in Government, Washington, D.C. (Online...

GEO World;  October 1, 2002 ;     53 words ......www.excelgov.org/iteamconnections1.pdf The Council for Excellence in Government, along with the Federal Geographic Data Committee, posted to its Web site (in PDF format) the inaugural issue of I-Team Connections, the official newsletter...

FGDC mandate clarified, public feedback requested.(NewsLink)(Federal...

GEO World;  August 1, 2004 ;     371 words ...Senior leaders of the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC), the Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) and The National Map came together at a summit in Charleston, S.C., to clarify program boundaries...

NRC reports on licensing geographic data and services.(newsline)(National...

Point of Beginning;  February 1, 2005 ;     407 words ......sponsored a symposium on licensing geographic data and services. At the conference, the...explained the business model for licensing geographic data and services as outlined in an NRC...agencies typically acquired ownership of geographic data from private sector and other data...

FGDC names new staff director.

GEO World;  December 1, 2003 ;     134 words ...The Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC), the interagency group charged with developing a National Spatial Data Infrastructure, named as its staff director Ivan...

Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA).(standards...

GEO World;  July 1, 2005 ;     44 words ...Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) announced that the Federal Geographic Data Committee accepted a URISA proposal to create a Street Address Standard to create data content, classification, transfer and quality standards for street addresses. www.urisa.org

U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SEEKS PROJECT SOLICITATIONS TO IMPROVE NATIONAL...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 17, 2007 ;     354 words ......issued the following press release: USGS and the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) formally announced their request for proposals...effectively discover, access, share, manage and use digital geographic data. In 2007, NSDI CAP awarded a total of 29 projects, totaling...

Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA), Aurora,...

GEO World;  October 1, 2004 ;     157 words ...http://www.gita.org GITA was appointed to serve on the Federal Geographic Data Committee Steering Committee, a group that will work to develop the future of spatial data infrastructure in the United States. Also, sales...

NSDI projects requested.(GOVERNMENTCONNECTION)(National Spatial Data...

GEO World;  December 1, 2007 ;     413 words ...The U.S Geological Survey (USGS) and the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) issued a request for proposals for projects to support the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI), defined as the technologies...projects. Each funded project should support new or existing infrastructure used to create, ...

Looking for quality geographic data? Analyze geographic data purchases...

GEO World;  September 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...QUALITY MEANS A LOT. IN THE CASE OF geographic data, it can mean the difference between...areas, so a solid understanding of geographic data quality is more important than ever...first understand some fundamentals of geographic data and data production. Data Basics Geographic...

FGDC guidelines address data and security.(Government Connection)(Federal...

GEO World;  June 1, 2004 ;     542 words ......data have emerged as a potential weapon. The Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) has been working to reshape federal guidelines...policies, standards and procedures for producing and sharing geographic data, has been accepting comments on revising the guidelines...

GIS Toolkit Released to Educate Public.(geographic information...

Point of Beginning;  June 1, 2001 ;     231 words ...The National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC) and the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) have joined together to release a GIS information toolkit called The NSDI Communications Toolkit. The toolkit is composed...