Abstract
Sharing Regional Data to The National Map
Track: Spatial Data Infrastructure
Author(s): Kenneth Juengling, Mary Valentino
The National Map is a USGS initiative to build a seamless, continuously maintained set of public domain geographic base information and make it available online interactively. The benefit to Federal, state, and local governments is in better integration, easier data sharing, and ready access to current, accurate, nationally consistent digital data.
The Towson University Center for GIS (TU-CGIS) is working to improve GIS coordination among local governments in the National Capitol Region. A primary goal is regional data sharing beyond jurisdictional boundaries. With National Spatial Data Infrastructure Cooperative Agreement Program assistance, TU-CGIS is currently working with regional partners to overcome political and technical issues hindering contributions to The National Map. Recently, TU-CGIS completed projects resulting in a regional landmark structures dataset and a transportation dataset. These datasets and the processes developed through the projects form the foundation for further regional data sharing.
Kenneth Juengling
Towson University Center for GIS
8000 York Road
7800 Building, Suite 307
Towson , Maryland 21252
United States
Phone: 410-704-5289
Fax: 410-704-3888
E-mail: kjuengling@towson.edu
Mary Valentino
Towson University Center for GIS
8000 York Road
7800 Building, Suite 307
Towson , Maryland 21252
United States
Phone: 410-704-5887
E-mail: mvalentino@towson.edu