Of fundamental importance and input to the knowledge base is profiling the status of national geospatial information management and systems in Member States. In this regard, the UN-GGIM Secretariat prepared (one of them in collaboration with ISPRS) and sent out questionnaires inviting national geospatial information authorities organisations to participate in a global surveys that seek to capture the present status of geospatial information management, in terms of status of mapping, geodetic reference frame, institutional arrangements, and integration of geospatial and statistical information.