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ensure accuracy. complete a five-year plan for the USGS
Cooperative Topographic Mapping program, including setting data
architecture, operations, goals, and timelines; develop a
business model for implementation; identify and make necessary
changes in business practices; identify workforce implications;
investigate existing holdings and data partnerships for
compatibility with the concept, and define data content; expand
the state liaison activities by building pilots; and identify
needs for legislative initiatives as implementation progresses.
The absence of a thorough implementation plan can only be seen
as an impediment to progress. At the USGS “Status of The
National Map” website (USGS, 2002e), a graphic indicates that
(1) a consistent user interface is to be developed by October
2002; (2) by February 2003 there are to be mul