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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] Spatial Data Distribution and National Security |
| Date: |
05/13/2004 03:15:01 PM |
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JONATHAN BYRON |
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Well, you are likely to find broad conclusions in the summary, written in =
bureacratese. No surprise there.=20
On page 27-28, it concluded that a small percent of currently available =
geospatial data would be useful for planning an attack, and none that they =
saw would be critical for planning an attack. That is rather different =
from your suspicion that it was an attempt to supress the availability of =
GIS data.=20
Jonathan=20
>>> Michael Gould <gould@lsi.uji.es> 05/13/04 03:56PM >>>
Interesting in what sense? The report doesn't reach many solid=20
conclusions, other than that the federal agencies now have an excuse =
for=20
filtering public sector information flow.
printed page 128 states in the conclusions:
"An analytical process should be used by federal agencies and
other organizations to assess the potential homeland security sensitivity
of specific pieces of geospatial information that is publicly
available and whether restricting access would enhance security.
The analytical framework presented earlier is a useful first step, which
is immediately available, for helping federal decisionmakers to make
sound and consistent decisions on whether and how to restrict public
access to geospatial information. We also believe that this framework
can be useful for any decisionmaker faced with determining whether
and how to make specific geospatial information publicly accessible."
Sounds like this process could potentially boil down to supression of =
large=20
scale geospatial data in just those key areas where people are most =
likely=20
to want to study. By people I mean all citizens, even the "bad ones" =
who=20
also have access to public libraries and the web :-)
Perhaps other on these lists will actually read the report, and then =
opine.
cheers
Michael Gould
At 20:50 13/05/2004, JONATHAN BYRON wrote:
>Interesting paper from the RAND think tank dealing with spatial data=20
>distribution and homeland security.
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>http://www.rand.org/publications/MG/MG142/MG142.pdf=20
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>Jonathan Byron
>GIS Specialist
>City of St. Augustine
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