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  eMaps

Description:
eMaps will provide capabilities for users to generate environmental and social maps to be displayed electronically via the Web. This initiative will allow farmers, rural planners, conservationalists, researchers, and other agricultural and land management specialists to enhance planning and development with tools and real-time information about land usage. eMaps enables better discovery of trends, more specific and robust analyses, and more accurate forecasting. Finally, it will leverage USDA's existing GIS data, which is some of the best in the world.