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GeoConnections Releases CGDI Interoperability Pilo
25 November 2008, 12:20pm
Wayland, MA, November 24, 2008. The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. and GeoConnections announce the release of a video that documents last year's successful interoperability demonstration, a major output of the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure Interoperability Pilot (CGDI IP). GeoConnections sponsored the Pilot, which concluded with a Web Conference that was witnessed live and online by more than 500 people. GeoConnections is a Canadian partnership program whose primary objective is to evolve and expand the CGDI. The CGDI IP was an OGC Interoperability Initiative.
The CGDI Interoperability Pilot video is available in English and French at the link below and is also viewable (via YouTube) from the CGDI IP link noted below.
The main objective of the CGDI IP was to assess opportunities for improving the management and dissemination of geospatial data through open-standards-based technology. The project's collaborative activities with federal, provincial, and private-sector partners demonstrated improved mechanisms for distributing and updating framework data. Three valuable benefits result: currency is maintained, versioning is avoided, and duplication is minimized.
The Web Conference demonstrated access to place names, roads and municipal boundary data from a distributed network of 14 federal, provincial and territorial servers. It also executed direct updates of data in provincial servers and showed how the network could assist in emergency response.
Collaboration and co-operation among the federal, provincial, territorial and private sector participants in this project was
outstanding, and the project results have been very well received by the participants. For additional information, please contact Brian
McLeod (mcleod@nrcan.gc.ca), Paula Rojas (projas@NRCan.gc.ca) or Peter Rushforth (prushfor@NRCan.gc.ca).
For more information visit:
CGDI Interoperability Pilot video
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