The NSDI Cooperative Agreements Program (CAP) is an annual program to assist the geospatial data community through funding and other resources in implementing the components of the NSDI. This program is open to State, local and Tribal governments, academia, commercial, and non-profit organizations. This program provides small seed grants to initiate sustainable on-going NSDI implementations. The program emphasizes partnerships, collaboration and the leveraging of geospatial resources in achieving its goals. Since 1994, the NSDI CAP has supported over 700 projects that created collaborations within all sectors of government, helped develop an understanding of geospatial information in organizations new to the NSDI, provided seed [...]
Summary
The NSDI Cooperative Agreements Program (CAP) is an annual program to assist the geospatial data community through funding and other resources in implementing the components of the NSDI. This program is open to State, local and Tribal governments, academia, commercial, and non-profit organizations. This program provides small seed grants to initiate sustainable on-going NSDI implementations. The program emphasizes partnerships, collaboration and the leveraging of geospatial resources in achieving its goals. Since 1994, the NSDI CAP has supported over 700 projects that
created collaborations within all sectors of government,
helped develop an understanding of geospatial information in organizations new to the NSDI,
provided seed money to enable geospatial organizations to participate in the national effort to implement the NSDI,
promoted the importance of geospatial data standards,
promoted the development of standardized metadata in hundreds of organizations,
and greatly expanded implementation of geospatial services on the Internet.
This collection in ScienceBase provides an index of the CAP projects since 1999. It is harvested from the Google Map (KML) files created to inventory the CAP projects on the FGDC web site.
