Appendix A
Acronyms
ACSM American Congress on Surveying and Mapping
AITFRA American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act
ANZLIC Australia New Zealand Land Information Council
BAS Boundary and Annexation Survey
BIA Bureau of Indian Affairs
BLM Bureau of Land Management
CAMA Computer Assisted Mass Appraisal
CD compact disc
CFAC California First Amendment Coalition
CGDI Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure
CIS common information system
CLU common land unit
COGO coordinate geometry
COM Common Object Model
COTS commercial off-the-shelf
DALIS Delaware Appraisal Land Information System
DHS U.S. Department of Homeland Security
DIME Dual Independent Map Encoding
DNR Department of Natural Resources
DOI U.S. Department of the Interior
DVD digital video disc
E911 emergency 911
EPA U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
ESRI Environmental Systems Research Institute
FEA Federal Enterprise Architecture
FGDC Federal Geographic Data Committee
FIG International Federation of Surveyors
FIPS Federal Information Processing Standards
FLAIR Federal Land Asset Inventory Reform
FLPMA Federal Land Policy and Management Act
FOIA Freedom of Information Act
FSA Farm Service Agency
FTP file transfer protocol
GAO Government Accountability Office
GCDB Geographic Coordinate Data Base
GDM Geospatial Data Model
GDSC Geographic Data Service Center
GIS geographic information system
GLoB Geospatial Line of Business
GPS global positioning system
GSA General Services Administration
HUD U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
IAAO International Association of Assessing Officers
INEGI National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics (Mexico)
IT information technology
LIS land information system
LOB Line of Business
LOJIC Louisville/Jefferson County Information Consortium
LPU Land and Property Unit
LUCA Local Update of Census Addresses
MAF Master Address File
MNDOT Minnesota Department of Transportation
MOU Memorandum of Understanding
MPROP Milwaukee Master Property File
MTAIP MAF/TIGER Accuracy Improvement Project
NCRC National Community Reinvestment Coalition
NEPA National Environmental Policy Act
NFIP National Flood Insurance Program
NGAC National Geospatial Advisory Committee
NGPO National Geospatial Program Office
NIEM National Information Exchange Model
NILS National Integrated Land System
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NPDS National Parcel Data System
NPS National Park Service
NRC National Research Council
NRCan Natural Resources Canada
NSDI National Spatial Data Infrastructure
NSGIC National States Geographic Information Council
OMB U.S. Office of Management and Budget
OO object-oriented
OS Ordnance Survey
OSAPR Ordnance Survey ADDRESS-POINT reference
PAF Postcode Address File
PC IDEA Permanent Committee on Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Americas
PIN parcel identification number
PLSS Public Land Survey System
PSMA Public Sector Mapping Agencies of Australia
PTI Public Technology, Inc.
RAVAR Rapid Assessment of Values at Risk
RFP Request for Proposals
SDI Spatial Data Infrastructure
TAAMS Trust Asset and Accounting Management System
TIGER Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing
TOPR Town of Port Royal
TVA Tennessee Valley Authority
URISA Urban and Regional Information Systems Association
USAID U.S. Agency for International Development
USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture
USFS U.S. Forest Service
USGS U.S. Geological Survey