from say, a photogrammetrist’s 
perspective. Standards, QA/QC 
procedures, new data acquisition 
methods, and incentives for sharing, 
should be topics of research, 
development and the implementation 
of them should go on in parallel, as 
soon as possible. 
Non-monetary incentives may be able 
to be used to foster institutional 
collaboration at the local, state and 
national levels. Consideration should 
be given to acquiring digital spatial 
data and information directly from field 
observations rather than digitizing out 
of date maps. 
It is an exciting time in the field of 
surveying and mapping and change is 
the order of the day. While some 
technologies will disappear, other 
more powerful tools will be adopted 
and overall a higher quality product will 
emerge to better serve society. 
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