The formation and quality assurance directions of the national spatial data infrastructure

The article discusses the legal grounds for the development, the results achieved, and the main directions for the formation and quality assurance of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). An overview of its current state is given, including a list of the main sources of spatial data, describing the organizational activities carried out within the state program “National Spatial Data Infrastructure” both at the federal and regional levels, as well as at the international level. The author analyzes challenges and limitations that impede the provision of the required level of NSDI quality. Proposals for their leveling are presented. In order to ensure the necessary quality level, it is suggested to form a number of components, in particular, regulatory, organizational and personnel. Specific solutions for each of them are proposed. The conclusion is drawn that it is necessary to create a unified normative-legal and methodological support of NSDI, to ensure effective inter-agency coordination, as well as to revise the knowledge-competence paradigm of training specialists for the standardization industry.