3: Common Collections
Use community-based approaches to develop and maintain common collections of geospatial data for sound decision-making. Other Information:
Large centralized national data holdings are costly to assemble and maintain. The most accurate and highest resolution data
are created and maintained close to the locations where they are used. As data moves away from their geographic base, away
from those who have vital use for them, there is less incentive to maintain them. This goal looks toward developing the organizational
relationships and technologies to build distributed locally maintained collections of data. These collections will be available
for many citizens for different purposes. The framework initiative will provide a foundation layer of basic data themes on
which many applications can build. A coordinated national effort will provide other thematic data layers to improve economic
growth, environmental quality and stability, and contribute to social progress. Much of this effort will involve establishing
common languages for talking about the natural and man made environments and the data that represent them through standards
development and data models. Finally, this goal seeks to involve different communities of interest in building these common
data stores.
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