Technical and policy issues related to semantically and spatially incompatible geodata
Both the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and National Information Infrastructure (NU) efforts have ambitious goals that are expected to improve the fundamental infrastructure, commerce, and society of the United States. Achieving these goals will require rapid development and deployment of information compatibility methods through technical and institutional standards. These standards will have to be scaleable and flexible to support new, and as-yet-undiscovered, data. Yet they will also need to accommodate our valuable data reserves. The area of geospatial data, and thus the creation of a National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI), is particularly challenging due to the profoundly different forms, evolutionary histories, and meanings attached to spatial data. We discuss technical issues resulting from the different natures and inaccuracy of existing geodata, and areas where federal policy could lead the way to greater compatibility.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- OSTI ID:
- 95519
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-95-1549C; CONF-9507145-1; ON: DE95015244; TRN: 95:006399
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Intelligent transportation systems and the national information infrastructure workshop, Cambridge, MA (United States), 13 Jul 1995; Other Information: PBD: [1995]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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