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William Burgess

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  Implement a Stakeholder Governance Structure to compliment NGAC

  An outstanding model is the Digital Coast Partnership. This program is exemplary in its stakeholder participation and governance. It contracts with six national non-profit organizations (American Planning Association, Association of State Flood Plain Managers, Coastal States Organization, National Association of Counties, Nature Conservancy and NSGIC) to work on common concerns and to provide stakeholder input to guide ...more »

  An outstanding model is the Digital Coast Partnership. This program is exemplary in its stakeholder participation and governance. It contracts with six national non-profit organizations (American Planning Association, Association of State Flood Plain Managers, Coastal States Organization, National Association of Counties, Nature Conservancy and NSGIC) to work on common concerns and to provide stakeholder input to guide its development. Small contracts allow the organizations to defer their costs for participating and increase their level of performance. In addition, NOAA assigns a staff member to each organization to assist them and ensure that contract deliverables are completed in a timely and rigorous manner. The program emphasizes and uses this input for strategic and business planning to determine real business needs and appropriate solutions.

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  Don’t Start What You Can’t Finish

  The apathy of the geospatial community to the Geospatial Platform is evident by the lack of responses to this site. There have been too many experiments, pilot projects, failed standards and good but unfunded ideas that have peaked the interest of the geospatial community, but only resulted in this increasing level of apathy. If this effort fails, it is very likely that the community will simply not engage in future ...more »

  The apathy of the geospatial community to the Geospatial Platform is evident by the lack of responses to this site. There have been too many experiments, pilot projects, failed standards and good but unfunded ideas that have peaked the interest of the geospatial community, but only resulted in this increasing level of apathy. If this effort fails, it is very likely that the community will simply not engage in future Federal efforts, and there will never be a National Spatial Data Infrastructure even if the Federal government succeeds in building its own spatial data infrastructure.

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  Adopt a Multi-resolution Data Model & System Architecture

  It is time for all levels of government to identify and adopt a common data model and transfer standard that can meet their needs. Government efforts are typically too slow to adapt to the rapid changes in the geospatial community. The private sector is much more adept and they have developed workable solutions (e.g. the Esri Community Basemap) that should be emulated in open standards by the Federal government with ...more »

  It is time for all levels of government to identify and adopt a common data model and transfer standard that can meet their needs. Government efforts are typically too slow to adapt to the rapid changes in the geospatial community. The private sector is much more adept and they have developed workable solutions (e.g. the Esri Community Basemap) that should be emulated in open standards by the Federal government with the cooperation of the private sector.

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  Identify a Neutral Agency to be the Managing Partner

  While each of the Federal agency members of the FGDC has certain operational programs, none are entrusted with managing an operational National Spatial Data Infrastructure, and the FGDC was not set up as an operational unit. It is time to get a fresh face involved in the effort to build the NSDI. They need to be empowered and funded to take swift action. They also need to identify a workable governance model for the ...more »

  While each of the Federal agency members of the FGDC has certain operational programs, none are entrusted with managing an operational National Spatial Data Infrastructure, and the FGDC was not set up as an operational unit. It is time to get a fresh face involved in the effort to build the NSDI. They need to be empowered and funded to take swift action. They also need to identify a workable governance model for the Geospatial Platform that includes all stakeholders.

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  Identify Funding Sources to Support Proposed Activities

  Related governance efforts, strategic and business planning, and system and applications development all have a price tag and must be funded for the Platform to be successful. Based on the proposed Strategic and Business Plan process, the top priorities should be compared to available funding so that the Geospatial Platform starts ‘small’ with one or two applications that are useful to all levels of government. This ...more »

  Related governance efforts, strategic and business planning, and system and applications development all have a price tag and must be funded for the Platform to be successful. Based on the proposed Strategic and Business Plan process, the top priorities should be compared to available funding so that the Geospatial Platform starts ‘small’ with one or two applications that are useful to all levels of government. This will build credibility with the Stakeholders and User Community that is currently absent with regard to Federal efforts to build the NSDI. Additionally, a single national data program with widespread application like the NAIP program should be fully funded and the buy-up options should be expanded to better meet state, tribal and local needs. Starting very small and focusing on projects with a high potential for success will gain support from at least part of the geospatial community.

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  Implement Strategic & Business Planning with Stakeholders

  NSGIC believes that the Roadmap document is too vague and not built on sound planning principles. Use the FGDC’s own guidelines developed for the Fifty States Initiative which are available at http://www.fgdc.gov/policyandplanning/revbpsp. Part of the planning process should identify the business requirements and drivers that affect local, state, tribal and Federal agencies, so that common needs can take the highest ...more »

  NSGIC believes that the Roadmap document is too vague and not built on sound planning principles. Use the FGDC’s own guidelines developed for the Fifty States Initiative which are available at http://www.fgdc.gov/policyandplanning/revbpsp. Part of the planning process should identify the business requirements and drivers that affect local, state, tribal and Federal agencies, so that common needs can take the highest priority. The planning process should also identify programs that have in fact resulted in 1) successful sharing of data or technologies, 2) efficiencies in developing geospatial programs, or 3) a standard national data set through a local to state to federal flow of data. Following development of a strategic plan, the identified success factors can be used as planks of a nationwide platform to build a national spatial data infrastructure in an incremental fashion.

  This planning effort must include the stakeholder community if the Federal government wants buy-in. It is not enough just to ask for comments on the Roadmap document. Specific details on each of the proposed activities must be available for review and concurrence by the entire geospatial community.

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  Implement a Stakeholder Governance Structure to compliment NGAC

  An outstanding model is the Digital Coast Partnership. This program is exemplary in its stakeholder participation and governance. It contracts with six national non-profit organizations (American Planning Association, Association of State Flood Plain Managers, Coastal States Organization, National Association of Counties, Nature Conservancy and NSGIC) to work on common concerns and to provide stakeholder input to guide ...more »

  An outstanding model is the Digital Coast Partnership. This program is exemplary in its stakeholder participation and governance. It contracts with six national non-profit organizations (American Planning Association, Association of State Flood Plain Managers, Coastal States Organization, National Association of Counties, Nature Conservancy and NSGIC) to work on common concerns and to provide stakeholder input to guide its development. Small contracts allow the organizations to defer their costs for participating and increase their level of performance. In addition, NOAA assigns a staff member to each organization to assist them and ensure that contract deliverables are completed in a timely and rigorous manner. The program emphasizes and uses this input for strategic and business planning to determine real business needs and appropriate solutions.

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