Resources & Tools
Development of a Georeferenced Document Management System
This project will develop a system to search for georeferenced documents online using geographic characteristics as search criteria.
For example, this system could allow one to find all satellite images, data elevation maps, and road network maps of Cyprus Hills, Saskatchewan, simply by defining a common search attribute, be it a place name, postal code, or latitude and longitude.
A document can be georeferenced if it refers to a geographic point, line, or area. Georeferenced documents can include topographic maps, forest cover maps, aerial photographs, airborne and satellite remote sensing images, survey plans, infrastructure and utility design drawings, and multimedia documents such as videos, photographs, and slides, to name a few.
Specifically, this georeferenced document-management system will equip users to:
create geographic features that represent each document and link the geographic features with their corresponding documents;
store and manage documents in databases or file directories;
retrieve documents by spatial search; and
add, delete, or modify georeferenced documents and their corresponding search features.
This commercial system can be integrated with a Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) Web Map Service to let CGDI users search for and find georeferenced documents easier and faster.
The system will be deployed at Alberta Sustainable Resource Development and at the Resource & Development Management Department of Orange County, California, USA.
Primary Partner:
MRF GeoSystems
Calgary,
Alberta;
Partners: Alberta Sustainable Resource Development; Resource & Development Management Department, Orange County, California, USA
Funding From GeoConnections: $150,000.00 ( 33.0 %)
Estimated Inception Date: May, 2007
Estimated Completion Date: April, 2008
Deliverables from this project benefitted the following provinces: All provinces