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Renewed GeoConnections
The 2010 Federal Budget announced renewed funding for the GeoConnections program. The Budget provides $11 million in funding over the next two years to continue development of the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) and to provide consolidated geographic-related information to Canadians via the Internet.
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Stewardship Planning Atlas
The Stewardship Planning Atlas will address GeoConnections' environment and sustainable development priority area by leveraging the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) to integrate diverse, distributed data in an online atlas. This atlas will enable users to create property maps for stewardship plans. Atop base layers and other context-setting data, users will be able to digitize fine-scale, local-level features and create custom maps for planning and operational purposes. The project will further extend the CGDI by exposing new data and services that capitalize on Open Geospatial Consortium specifications and that appear within the GeoConnections Discovery Portal.
The Stewardship Planning Atlas will accommodate a wide variety of applications, which will help generate a large user base. Compatible across browsers, platforms, and bandwidth capacities, the Atlas will be intuitive, easy to use, and free. The Atlas' architecture will also be designed to protect user privacy. Such an atlas is of great interest to government and NGO partners, and a dedicated group of collaborators are committed to bringing this project from concept to reality.
The Eastern Ontario Model Forest will manage the project with support from
a number of government and NGO partners listed below.
Primary Partner:
Eastern Ontario Model Forest
Kemptville,
Ontario;
Partners: Ontario Woodlot Association; Ontario Forestry Association; Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources; United Counties of Prescott-Russell; Trees Ontario Foundation
Funding From GeoConnections: $83,800.00 ( 49.56 %)
Estimated Inception Date: January 2, 2007
Estimated Completion Date: December 31, 2007
Deliverables from this project benefitted the following provinces: Ontario;