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Spatial data Infrastructure (SDI)September 2010GIS Best PracticesiTable of ContentsWhat Is GIS? 1What Is SDI? 3Economic Growth Strategy Transformed Through a Spatial data Infrastructure 5Collaboration Through GIS and a Regional SDI 11Abu Dhabi SDI Supports Wide-Ranging E-governmentPrograms Using GIS 17Austria's Geographic data Conforms to INSPIRE 23Building INSPIRE: The Spatial data Infrastructure for Europe 29Mukund Rao Steers data and GIS for Global SpatialData Infrastructure 43Remote Communities Prevail with GIS 47Governance of the NSDI 55A Geospatial Foundation 65The Next Step 73Improving Regional Water Quality Assessment 77iiTable of ContentsKeeping Nature and Man in Balance 83Organizing a Century of data 89GEOSS GEO Portal 95GIS Best Practices 1 Is GIS?Making decisions based on geography is basic to human thinking. Where shall we go, what will it be like, and what shall we do when we get there are applied to the simple event of going to the store or to the major event of launching a bathysphere into the ocean's depths.

i Table of Contents What Is GIS? 1 What Is SDI? 3 Economic Growth Strategy Transformed Through a Spatial Data Infrastructure 5 Collaboration Through GIS and a Regional SDI 11

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