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Recent News
June 08 2008
Making Environmental Sense: SensorBay Project Capitalizes on Sensors in Placentia Bay
GeoConnections recently awarded Compusult Limited a contract to capture data from sensors in, around, and under Placentia Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, and make this data available on the Internet. The SensorBay project will enable anyone with a stake in the Placentia Bay region to benefit from the applications and information the sensors offer.
May 20 2008
The Canadian National Road Network: Setting the standard for National Road Datasets
ESRI's article "Canadian National Road Network Defines State of the Art for National Datasets" highlights the significance of data-sharing throughout the progress of the National Road Network (NRN) project to its current 2.0 version, summarizing the improvements made on some of the challenges that came up along the way. The focus has been shifted to include the growing importance of establishing connections between the provinces, territories, and private partners to upgrade information to a more detailed level. Notably, it is the maintenance and upkeep of the project's geometric data that takes precedence in the second version, as well as the addition of address ranges, street names, and place names data.
April 21 2008
GeoConnections to Streamline Gateway to Millions of Data Products and Services
GeoConnections has awarded a contract to Compusult Limited to develop the new GeoConnections Discovery Portal (GDP) and the new GeoGratis portal. Compusult will also engineer the software required to connect these portals to data, systems, applications, and tools throughout the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI).
April 21 2008
Upgraded Guide Expands on Users' Needs
GeoConnections has updated the guide entitled Understanding Users' Needs and User-Centred Design. The updated version of the guide contains two key changes that may be useful to organizations hoping to partner with GeoConnections.
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Upcoming Events
July 06 2008
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July 06 2008
, Boston
, Massachusetts
, US
GEOSS Workshop XXII: Air Quality and Coastal Ecosystems
July 13 2008
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July 16 2008
, Winnipeg
, Manitoba
, Canada
The Canadian Institute of Planners and the Manitoba Professional Planners Institute 2008
July 21 2008
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July 25 2008
, Vancouver
, British Columbia
, Canada
GeoWeb 2008
August 28 2008
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August 29 2008
, Quebec City
, Quebec
, Canada
2nd International Workshop on Mobile Geospatial Augmented Reality
September 10 2008
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September 12 2008
, Loveland
, Colorado
, US
GIS in the Rockies
September 18 2008
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September 18 2008
, Fredericton
, New Brunswick
, Canada
GIAC Geomatic Solutions for New Brunswick Workshop
September 29 2008
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October 03 2008
, Cape Town
, South Africa
FOSS4G 2008
November 11 2008
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November 14 2008
, Tokyo
, Japan
International Symposium on GPS/GNSS 2008
February 10 2009
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February 13 2009
, Hyderabad
, India
Map World Forum
April 19 2009
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April 22 2009
, Tampa
, Florida
, US
GITA GIS Conference