<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/dfa6891b-a645-4cfb-bc9d-b12f2ee70f3a/29B98827-5C3F-4E6A-B729-5AA6F2524C65/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://gcn.com/articles/2009/03/02/virtual-usa.aspx" href="http://gcn.com/articles/2009/03/02/virtual-usa.aspx" style="font-size: 11px;">gcn.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gcn.com/articles/2009/03/02/virtual-usa.aspx">Building 'Virtual USA' one state at a time</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gcn.com/articles/2009/03/02/virtual-usa.aspx"><LI class="author">By <A href="http://gcn.com/forms/emailtoauthor.aspx?AuthorItem={30D4BBEA-128E-4ED4-8EB2-5C073F31A2D6}&ArticleItem={C646AE04-6E0A-4F4D-8A18-B698C19E723B}">Ben Bain</A></LI><LI class="date">Mar 02, 2009</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gcn.com/articles/2009/03/02/virtual-usa.aspx"><P>Federal and state authorities are collaborating on a project that would allow state and local caches of geospatial data to be interoperable, with the goal of creating a "Virtual USA" for emergency response purposes.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gcn.com/articles/2009/03/02/virtual-usa.aspx">Officials say the goal is to make local- and state-owned geospatial data interoperable and usable across jurisdictions, with non-federal authorities maintaining control over the data and deciding what data to share.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gcn.com/articles/2009/03/02/virtual-usa.aspx">The recent meeting was hosted by Alabama’s Homeland Security Department, which created <A href="http://gcn.com/articles/2008/10/17/alabamas-layered-approach.aspx">Virtual Alabama</A>. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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