2: Discovery, Access, and Use
Develop common solutions for discovery, access, and use of geospatial data in response to the needs of diverse communities. Other Information:
For the NSDI to succeed, geographic data must become easier to find and work with. Ideally, geographic data would be readily
available as part of a common utility like the road system or the power supply. Libraries of data could reside online that
users could access from anywhere. Once found, data would be easy to transfer and use in different applications; every data
set would have full and complete metadata to ease the process of transfer and use. Some analyses could be performed remotely
by integrating data from several sources. This goal addresses technical solutions and approaches to achieve these common solutions.
Technical solutions alone are not enough, however. There must be a willingness of many communities to work together to forge
the common means from the bottom up.
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