http://www.geoconnections.org/en/newsmedia Get the latest on GeoConnections' activities, announcements of opportunity and other developments that help keep the CGDI growing and gaining in value each day. en_CA Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:46:15 GMT 2008-07-04T05:46:15Z en_CA http://www.geoconnections.org/en/newsmedia/whatsnew/getDoc=830 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. Sun, 08 Jun 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.geoconnections.org/en/newsmedia/whatsnew/getDoc=830 2008-06-08T04:00:00Z http://www.geoconnections.org/en/newsmedia/whatsnew/getDoc=829 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. Tue, 20 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.geoconnections.org/en/newsmedia/whatsnew/getDoc=829 2008-05-20T04:00:00Z http://www.geoconnections.org/en/newsmedia/whatsnew/getDoc=826 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). Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.geoconnections.org/en/newsmedia/whatsnew/getDoc=826 2008-04-21T04:00:00Z http://www.geoconnections.org/en/newsmedia/whatsnew/getDoc=827 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. Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.geoconnections.org/en/newsmedia/whatsnew/getDoc=827 2008-04-21T04:00:00Z