Discussion Questions

1. What do you think the Dine CARE GIS project want to accomplish and what types of partnerships have they developed?
2. Describe the NSDI problem.
3. What was MSC's definition of the NSDI and what does it mean?
4. What resulted from the Executive Order entitled "Coordinating Geographic Data Acquisition and Access?
5. What are the three components of the NSDI in practice?
6. What are the successes and failures of the NSDI?
7. How do you think the NSDI should be funded?
8. Why do we need global GI frameworks?
9. What was the IMW and what happened to it?
10. What is the DCW?
11. What is the ISCGM approach to a global geodatabase?
12. What types of data does Terraserver provide?
13. What type of data does NavTech provide?
14. What type of data will the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission supply?
15. If implemented, what challenges a Digital Earth try to overcome?
16. There are tensions between scientists and the private sector in how a Digital Earth might be implemented.  Explain.
17. What is the GSDI presently and what could it be?
18. What do Clinton, Gore, Agenda 21 of Rio, and the UN General Assembly have in common on the politics of GIS?  Where do you think our present politicians stand?  Will 9/11/01 affect their policies?

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