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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 13:09:42 -0500
From: Julie Binder Maitra <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: FGDC Releases Three Standards for Public Review
Sender: Julie Binder Maitra <[log in to unmask]>

The Federal Geodetic Data Committee (FGDC) is conducting a public review of
three standards:

                     the Address Data Content Standard (comments due June
22, 2001)
                     the NSDI Framework Transportation Identification
Standard
                     (comments due July 20, 2001)
                     the Standard for a U.S. National Grid (comments due
June 22,
                     2001)

The FGDC invites GIS data  producers and users and software vendors to
comment on the standards to ensure that the standards meet the needs of
their communities.   To learn about the standards and how to submit
comments on the standards, visit the FGDC What's New web page at
http://www.fgdc.gov/whatsnew/whatsnew.html.  Reviewers are strongly
encouraged to use the template for sending comments that may be downloaded
from  http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/directives/dir2d.html.

Public review comments that address specific issues/changes/additions may
result in revisions that enhance the usefulness of the standards for their
communities.   After comments have been evaluated, reviewers will receive
notification of how their comments were addressed.  After formal
endorsement of the standard by the FGDC, the standard and a summary
analysis of the changes will be made available to the public via the FGDC
Web site.

To learn more about this and other FGDC standards activities, please visit
the FGDC standards activities web page at
http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/standards.html.   The acceptance of FGDC
standards by GIS data users and producers and software vendors depends on
public response to the draft standards.

YOU ARE RECEIVING THIS MESSAGE BECAUSE YOU OR YOUR ORGANIZATION HAS AN
INTEREST IN GEOSPATIAL DATA STANDARDS.

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 (Ms.) Julie Binder Maitra
 Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
 FGDC Standards Coordinator

 Post or courier:

 U.S. Geological Survey
 590 National Center
 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive
 Reston, Virginia 20192
 USA

 Phone: +001 703 648 4627 M-W, F   GMT -5 h
 Phone: + 001 703 367 0226 Thursdays
 Fax: +001 703 648 5755
 Web: http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/standards.html
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"We live in two worlds:
the world that we can measure with line and rule, and
the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination." - Leigh Hunt
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