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Attachment A <br />The following describes those federally maintained, endorsed or adopted initiatives that <br />grantees are strongly recommended to review: <br />National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) (htto: / /www.fgdc.gov /nsdi /nsdi.htmi) <br />The NSDI was created under Executive Order 12906 calling for the establishment of the <br />NSDI defined as the technologies, policies, and people necessary to promote sharing of <br />geospatial data throughout all levels of government, private and nonprofit sectors, and <br />the academic community. <br />The NSDI clearing house is available to local, state, and federal contributors to register <br />as clearinghouse nodes where metadata about geospatial data, services, and resources <br />can be published and harvested for discovery by any user. FGDC manages NSDI and <br />provides guidance and instruction for using and registering nodes on NSDI. <br />Geospatial One Stop Portal (www.geodata.gov) <br />As a part of one of Office of Management and Budget's 24 Federal E -Gov initiatives <br />(www.whitehouse.gov /omb /eciov /), the Geospatial One Stop portal was established to <br />promote data sharing across federal entities and is available to the public for use as a <br />discovery portal. Geospatial One Stop portal (www.geodata.gov) is an interface to NSDI <br />established under Executive Order 12906. The portal harvests geospatial resource <br />metadata from nodes registered with NSDI and is a repository for all metadata <br />published and accessible on NSDI. Users also have the option to publish metadata <br />holdings directly to Geospatial One Stop enabling smaller organizations with the ability <br />to share and collaborate on geospatial resources. <br />An important feature on Geospatial One Stop for grantees is the geodata.gov Market <br />Place. Here users can find information about planned acquisitions of geospatial <br />resources and future projects or activities that may align with their own objectives. If <br />grantees find no existing resources on Geospatial One Stop in either the metadata <br />searches or in the Market Place, they are strongly encouraged to register their planned <br />activities for geospatial data acquisition or future projects and activities so that others <br />may prevent from redundant efforts. <br />United States National Grid (htta: / /www.f-qdc.-gov /standards /status /usncl.htmi) <br />The objective of this US National Grid standard is to create a more interoperable <br />environment for developing location -based services within the United States and to <br />increase the interoperability of location services appliances with printed map products <br />by establishing a nationally consistent grid reference system as the preferred grid for <br />NSDI applications. The U.S. National Grid is based on universally - defined coordinate <br />and grid systems and can, therefore, be easily extended for use world -wide as a <br />universal grid reference system. <br />There are a number of coordinate reference systems that can be used either in location <br />service appliances or on printed maps for the purpose of establishing a location. Within <br />I -2 <br />