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NSDI projects requested.(GOVERNMENTCONNECTION)(National Spatial Data Infrastructure )
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GEO World
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December 1, 2007
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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, policies and people necessary to promote sharing of geospatial data throughout all levels of government, the private and nonprofit sectors, and the academic community."
The initiative is tied to a Cooperative Agreements Program (CAP) that will disperse $1.3 million in funding across six categories, covering an estimated 26 projects. Each funded project should support new or existing infrastructure used to create, access, share, manage or use digital geographic ...
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