The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program/Library of Congress continues profiling digital preservation pioneers with a bio of Steve Morris.

Steve heads the Digital Library Initiative at North Carolina State University (NCSU) and has been working for over a decade to help enable online access to geospatial data. More recently NCSU Libraries entered into a partnership with the Library of Congress to address the issue of long-term preservation of geospatial data. But the scope of the preservation challenge is so vast that the NCSU project’s role is primarily as a facilitator. “Our focus isn’t on developing technical architecture,” Steve says, “but more in engaging the industry and being a catalyst for discussion, getting the community to think about [preservation and access].”

See Also: More Profiles:
* Cathy Hartman
* Eileen Fenton
* Dr. David Kirsch
* Howard Besser

See Also: Long Before Google Earth There Was (and Still Is) TerraFly. These days the imagery from Terrafly is from the USGS. The imagery from Google and others (for example the “Birds Eye” imagery from Microsoft Virtual Earth) is more impressive. However, TerraFly continues to offer a feature now one else offers, INFORMATION down to a few feet about precisely where you are clicking. If you use this interface you can skip the aerial imagery and simply enter an address. Here’s 1060 W. Addison St. Chicago, IL, home of Wrigley Field and the Chicago Cubs. Wow, that’s a lot of local info.