GAO Report to Congress on Geospatial Data

The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) Report on Addresses and Orthoimagery was made public and Washington was one of five states interviewed for this report.

Along with the Geospatial Program Office's interview, visits and presentations were made by the Department of Revenue and Transportation.

Specific recommendations were made on pages 72 and 73. It is relatively unusual for GAO to make specific recommendations to Congress, but they heard the states message on Titles 13 & 39 and the message about Imagery for the Nation.

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GEOSPATIAL DATA: Progress Needed on Identifying Expenditures, Building and Utilizing a Data Infrastructure, and Reducing Duplicative Efforts GAO-15-193: Published: Feb 12, 2015. Publicly Released: Mar 19, 2015