What Makes A

Successful Advisory

Committee

MAPPS Winter MeetingJanuary 27, 2015

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Types of Advisory Committees

+ Federal

Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA)

Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC)

+ State

State Geospatial Advisory or Coordinating Committee

+ University

University Geospatial Program or Department

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Federal Committees

+ National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC)

+ Hydrographic Services Review Panel (HSRP)

+ Advisory Committee on Commercial Remote

Sensing (ACCRS)

+ Technical Mapping Advisory Committee (TMAC)

+ Applied Sciences Advisory Committee (ASAC)

+ Searchable website: www.facadatabase.gov

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State GIS Advisory Committees

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State GIS Advisory Committees

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State GIS Advisory Committees

+ NSGIC Survey of the States

+ http://www.nsgic.org/gma-

2013/index.php?question_index=2

Questions 10, 11, 12

+ NSGIC State Information

+ http://www.nsgic.org/state-information

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University Advisory Committees

+ Curricula

+ Workforce Development

+ Research

+ Work-Study

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Why MAPPS Members Should Participate

+ Influence – “if you’re not at the table,

you’re on the menu”

+ Information

+ Networking

+ Access