Welcome to the Geospatial One-Stop standards web page. Geospatial One-Stop during 2002-2003 instituted a collaborative process involving Federal, State, local and private sector experts to develop draft content standards to facilitate geospatial data exchange across the web for specific themes.
The standards are intended to establish common requirements to facilitate data exchange for seven themes of geospatial data that are of critical importance to the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI), as they are fundamental to many different Geographic Information System (GIS) applications. The seven geospatial data themes are: geodetic control, elevation, orthoimagery, hydrography, transportation, cadastral, and governmental unit boundaries. These themes are known as NSDI framework themes.
The Framework Data Content exchange standard is being processed as an American National Standard through the ANSI-accredited organization, INCITS. It is anticipated to become a formal standard in late 2006. For more information go to FGDC Standards Project.