The National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC) is a charter member of Coalition of Geospatial Organizations (COGO) and, with the twelve other member organizations, NSGIC supported the release of the Report Card on the National Spatial Data Infrastructure. NSGIC is hopeful that the Report Card and other impending developments will result in some much needed attention for the issues that have slowed the development of the NSDI. Those issues include the FGDC’s lack of authority over Federal agencies, no clear mandate for building the NSDI, no Congressional oversight, the lack of sufficient stakeholder involvement, and insufficient resourcing to build the NSDI. The report card is one more step toward our nation recognizing the need for a National Spatial Data Infrastructure. While the report card shown below is an accurate summary of the findings of the expert panel commissioned by COGO, it’s important to review the document which describes in detail the methodology behind the scores.
