using this information to convert land use in advance of infrastructure deployment can help reduce the time needed by developers to acquire land use clearance similarly mapping could help increase coordination between different levels of government eg federalstate centrallocal policy support to renewable energy should for instance be consistent and harmonised at both the federal and state level so as to provide investors with coherent signals and incentives resource mapping can moreover inform policy design by central and local authorities and help ensure that these policies are complementary rather than duplicative see question