Directions Magazine: NSGIC Trends

Adena Schutzberg has an editorial in the latest Directions Magazine that presents a good summary of the 2006 NSGIC Conference.

In NSGIC Trends, Adena says of the conference "like all the others I've attended, [it] was a whirlwind tour of agencies, states, technologies, visions, suggestions, questions and proposals."

She gives her take on the major issues that arose from the NSGIC week in Little rock, including:

• The growing role of GIS Coordinators in state government
• A move from data-hosting to providing tools and applications and towards better use of the web for communication
  
• Changes at USGS and confusion about the Geospatial Line of Business
  
• Progress towards Imagery for the Nation
• The growth of collaboration and partnerships
  
• Growing recognition of the importance of understanding legal issues

Adena also noted those topics she was surprised not to hear about, including "3D, open source, CAD integration and mashups."