§2804 National Spatial Data Infrastructure

Summary

Creates a national system to make maps and location data from federal, state, local, and tribal governments, the private sector, and colleges and universities easy to find and to combine. The system must protect privacy by checking data before release to follow the Privacy Act (section 552a) and to avoid sharing personally identifiable information, including checking re‑identification risk. It must help make statistics more accurate, allow public access under OMB Circular A‑130, protect licensed or proprietary data, and make federal systems work together so agencies and partners can share data. The system must also support a Global Spatial Data Infrastructure while following national security, defense, intelligence, and trade needs, and covered agencies must use international voluntary consensus standards under OMB Circular A‑119. A Committee must keep a strategic plan for building and running the system that fits security and emergency preparedness rules, and the Committee must advise federal and non‑federal users about their duties in using the system.