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Minutes of Cartographic User's Advisory Council Meeting at ALA, Miami Beach,
June 26, 1994
NOTE: These are notes taken at the CUAC and GODORT Fed Docs Update Meeting, and
have not been cleared by the agencies.
1. Defense Mapping Agency
Margaret Brill announced that there is a new liaison for the Depository
Library Program (DLP) at DMA. His name is Mark Ward, and the telephone number
(301/227-3380) remains the same. She also reported that the Digital Chart of
the World had been distributed to Regional Depositories only. These copies
came from Canada. A new version is expected around the first of the year
which will go to everyone who responded to the survey. It is quicker than the
first version, has higher resolution and new software. There is now an
Interagency Replication & Distribution Working Group consisting of
representatives of NOAA, DMA and USGS which meets every month. Gary North is
the USGS representative. Gary reported that many DMA products are being
reclassified and moved to the EROS Data Center. DMA will release lots of maps,
though there are problems with 3-country agreements. In the near future
aeronautical and nautical charts will only be published electronically. They
will probably be distributed to DLs on CD-ROM, so we will need large plotters
or printers to reproduce them. DMA has established the Global Geographic Info
System.
2. US Geological Survey
Gary North attended the meeting and reported on developments at USGS.
USGS has closed many field offices. However, Internet activity has increased
tremendously. USGS has a 'prototype' Home Page on WWW. The new USGS Director
is Dr. Gordon Eaton. 583 people took early retirement, 23% of all people in
Earth Science activity. Bruce Hubbard has retired, and no new liaison has
been named for the DLP. In July USGS is inaugurating a new Business Inventory
Control with 3 tiers:
a) Electronic Seamless Entry (Information)
b) Distribution
c) Processes - how to move products.
USGS will take products from more agencies.
A new product will be the Digital Raster Graphics (DRG) at 1:24,000 on CD-
ROM. The Digital Orthophoto Quads will be in color IF the state chooses to pay
the extra cost. The new Forest Service/USGS Topo Quads will start coming out
soon. There will be 10,000 sheets altogether which will be distributed to
libraries. USGS will print them. Gary confirmed what we had learned
previously - that the GNIS CD-ROM will not be distributed in the DLP due to
software costs, but will be for sale the first week of July for $57 from USGS.
(It is now available).
USGS has 2 new publications which have not yet been included in the DLP.
They are Sources for Digital Spatial Data and Sources for Cartographic
Software. They each cost $22.00. The 15 Minute Program has been abandoned
and the remaining maps are being sold to dealers in large quantities.
Additional copies of the educational packet Exploring Maps can be obtained from
800-USA-MAPS. A National Federal Geospatial Data Clearinghouse (FGDC) has
been established. The NCIC is moving to Sioux Falls and will cover digital
data.
3. Census Bureau
John Stevenson reported on Census Bureau activities.
The California 1 TIGER disk was recalled. LandView has a bug on some disks -
Arizona, Colorado, Georgia 1, New Mexico and Minnesota are OK, so it is
important to download the software from one of these disks. (It can then be
used with any other disk.) Margaret Brill reported that she had heard at her
State Data Center Annual Meeting that there will be a TIGER release with new
LandView software with analytical capability, perhaps as early as the Fall.
There will be far fewer disks than before due to improved compression. The
new USA Counties CD, available in August, will add a 'mini-LandView' to make
thematic maps using the county-level data on the CD-ROM.
4. CUAC: the dates of the Fall Meeting have not yet been set.
Margaret Brill
Duke University
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