U.S. Federal Government ENG The purpose of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure is to achieve coordinated policies, standards, and procedures for organizations to cooperatively produce and share geographic data. This is a partnership across all levels of government, Federal, State, regions, counties, and municipalities, as well as with commercial and non-government organizations. The Geospatial Data Clearinghouse uses a search mechanism called the Geospatial Profile, which is nteroperable with GILS. The U.S. Geospatial Clearinghouse is operational with distributed spatial search of more than 50 clearinghouse servers. Doug Nebert USA ddnebert@usgs.gov 703-648-4151 Home Page text/HTML http://fgdclearhs.er.usgs.gov/ list0668 USGS ENG 19990731