PE&RS October 2003

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The National Map provides access to networked databases of current information about the Nation’s landscape. The background scene is a high-resolution orthophotograph of Reston, Virginia, produced by the U.S. Geological Survey–National Imagery and Mapping Agency partnership for obtaining detailed coverage of the Nation’s largest urban centers, including critical transportation, economic, and other infrastructure features. The shaded-relief image of the Rocky Mountains was produced from raster elevation data of The National Map. The USGS Effingham South, Illinois, topographic map (1998) includes the town of Ewington. Future maps will be produced by drawing on distributed partner holdings of current base geographic information. Two images produced using The National Map Web browser-based viewer (www.nationalmap.usgs.gov) demonstrate the flexibilities and capabilities available to users through the Internet-based delivery of images, source data, and printable maps. The Colorado scene, right-center, shows the San Luis Valley with its irrigated fields of potatoes, wheat, and barley. This scene includes land cover, elevation, and hydrography data extracted from The National Map. The Gateway Arch, its shadow, and details of the urban infrastructure, lower left, are clearlyvisible in the 1-foot ground resolution orthoimage of central St. Louis, Missouri.

The National Map Foreword

1081 National Mapping Examined: An Introduction
Charles E. Ogrosky

Highlight Article

1087 The National Map — A Continuing, Critical Need for the Nation (140kb pdf)
Charles G. Groat

Peer-Reviewed Articles (Click the linked titles to see the full abstract)

1109 The National Map – From Geography to Mapping and Back Again
John A. Kelmelis, Mark L. DeMulder, Charles E. Ogrosky, Nicholas J. VanDriel, and Barbara J. Ryan

From ensuring access to base geographic information to applying process models to predict spatial changes, the U.S. Geological Survey is applying geographic science to implement The National Map, the Nation’s topographic map for the 21st century.

1119 Partnering for the People: Improving the U.S. Census Bureau’s MAF/TIGER Database
Frederick R. Broome and Leslie S. Godwin

The U.S. Census Bureau is continuing its long-standing policy of using partnerships with Federal, tribal, State, and local governments and others to create the geographic database for censuses and surveys.

1127 Digital Coast and The National Map: A Seamless Cooperative
Margaret A. Davidson and Anne Hale Miglarese

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Geological Survey are cooperating to develop data and share resources to enable the development of The National Map and NOAA’s Digital Coast.

1133 The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Multi-Hazard Flood Map Modernization and The National Map
Anthony S. Lowe

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is working with the U.S. Geological Survey and others to ensure the success of individual programs and common goals by implementing a national geospatial infrastructure.

1137 National Geospatial Preparedness for All-Hazard Emergency Management
Barry R. Napier

Assuring geospatial preparedness will allow emergency managers and first responders to plan efficiently and make better decisions using the best geographic information and tools, thereby improving their ability to save lives, protect property, and preserve the environment.

1141 Mapping Delaware through Partnerships
Michael B. Mahaffie

Delaware’s Data Mapping and Integration Laboratory serves as proof of concept of a distributed, but networked collection of datasets that are brought together to form a Spatial Data Framework, as the State’s implementation of The National Map.

1147 The National Map “of Texas” – An Example of Statewide Implementation
Drew Decker

The development of a Texas statewide digital mapping product supporting the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster response operations is a proof of concept for The National Map implementation.

1155 A Data Provider’s View of The National Map
Donald Cooke

The National Map implementation may challenge commercial street mapping vendors, but will also provide opportunities for mutually beneficial public-private symbiosis.

1159 GIS: Infrastructure Underpinnings for The National Map
Jack Dangermond and R. Clint Brown

GIS will be the primary technology that enables multiple organizations to work in concert to build and share The National Map databases, which will be accomplished through a distributed network of GIS users.

1165 The Effect of Governmental Geospatial Data Programs and Policy on Innovation in the Private Sector
David M. DeLorme and James G. Peterson

The National Map initiative has enormous potential for fostering innovation in the private sector and, in return, The National Map will greatly benefit from such innovation.

1169 Building the National GeoBase for Canada
Bob D. Johnson and Jasdev Singh

Base geographic information for Canada will be provided through the GeoBase initiative, part of a larger program, GeoConnections. The aim of GeoBase is to make maintained data that will serve as a foundation for a range of geospatial applications freely available to the public.

1175 A New Geographic Information Framework for Great Britain
Keith J. Murray and Duncan Shiell

As nations move towards knowledge-based economies, so too must National Mapping Agencies be developing better frameworks for geographic information and by migrating from data to better connected and more intelligent forms of geographic information.

1183 Spatially Enabling Australia through Collaboration and Innovation
Dan L. Paull and Marni J. Bower

The success of PSMA Australia Limited demonstrates that the establishment and maintenance of inter-jurisdictional relationships is critical to the success of an effective national mapping infrastructure.

Announcements
1096 Call for Papers — PE&RS Special Issue on Mobile Mapping Systems
1124 Terrain Data: Applications and Visualization — Making the Connection

Columns & Updates
1092 Grids & Datums — United Kingdom
1097 Direct Georeferencing
1099 In Memoriam — Paul Frederick Hopkins
1101 UCGIS Report
1103 Headquarters News
1104 Industry News

Departments
1103 New Member List
1105 Who’s Who in ASPRS
1106 Sustaining Members
1108 New Sustaining Member
1108 Advertiser Index
1132 Forthcoming Articles
1136 Instructions to Authors
1140 Calendar
1191 Classifieds
1192 Bookstore
1198 Professional Directory
1199 Membership Application

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