Recent geospatial program highlights and success stories from the NGPO include:

The National Map:  (nationalmap.gov)
- In the process of rebuilding viewers
- Viewers will be incorporated in GOS portal and will provide access to The

National Map and National Atlas
- Re-engineering The National Map system
- Land cover will be included as a layer of  The National Map

Geospatial One-Stop:  (www.geodata.gov)
- Overall collection grew from 81,000 to 123,000 records in 2006
- In excess of 4,800 map services published by our partners
- GOS Marketplace grew from 500 plans to more than 2,000
- Greater than 1,000 contacts made to date in FY’07

FGDC Executive Secretariat:  (www.fgdc.gov)
- Geospatial Line of Business support and Program Management Office

(PMO)
- Establishing National Geospatial Advisory Committee under FACA
- 2007 CAP Grant recipients have been selected for four of five categories

USGS Geospatial Liaisons
- Over $10.3 million in agreements for high-resolution imagery for NGA and

DHS leveraging more than $40 million in state and local investments
- More than $1.1 million in partner funding agreements to support high-priority

NSDI development needs such as strategic and business planning, clearinghouse infrastructure and data portals, framework data stewardship, integration of local data
- Coordinated NHD Maintenance, Geospatial One-Stop and Metadata workshops in multiple states
- Coordinated technical expertise support from NGTOC to enable partner successes

Emergency Operations
- USGS work with state, local and regional organizations
- Participating in Project Homeland
- Providing data for first responders
- Collaborating on building systems to rapidly ingest and disseminated data
- Collaborating in DHS and NGS collections of HSIP data

Graphic Products
- Work in progress using best available data from The National Map
- Strives to replicate the look of original USGS topographic maps, where

feasible
- Will develop local workshops and customer feedback forums to refine

standards, improve data quality and provide input
- Image maps will be a companion to geo-referenced pdf topographic maps

According to our contact at the NGPO, they are embarking on some future projects that will impact the geospatial community

See www.usgs.gov/ngpo