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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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Organizing Space: Enabling Documented Knowledge to Flow through Location
This project will make it easier for scientific researchers and other users of location-based ("spatial" or "geospatial") data to integrate text documents or non-spatial images with geospatial information. This integration will enable users to search for and discover texts and images without onerous manual document georeferencing.
As much as 90 percent of geospatial knowledge within scientific projects is maintained as text-based documents or non-spatial imagery and not as traditional geospatial data types. This project will enable on-demand integration of geospatial information with such documents. Specifically, the project will equip users to share and discover distributed geotagged documentation within the PYXIS WorldViewTM application. This application will be deployed in the University of Alberta’s Canadian Circumpolar Institute.
The project employs a grid that acts like a spreadsheet of cells over the planet’s surface, each cell describing its coverage area in varying levels of detail. It is quicker, simpler, and less expensive to geo-tag documents to such a global grid index than it is to manually link features to documents.
The project will develop innovative software that is based on the ISO 19100 coverage and gridded-data standards and compatible with the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI). It t will enable the seamless integration of CGDI data with traditional scientific documents.
The contract for this project is the result of a successful response to a Request for Proposals to develop and deploy innovative technologies for use within the CGDI.
Primary Partner:
The PYXIS Innovation Inc.
Kingston,
Ontario;
Partners: University of Alberta; Canadian Circumpolar Institute; The World Conservation Union
Funding From GeoConnections: $150,000.00 ( 50.0 %)
Estimated Inception Date: July, 2007
Estimated Completion Date: April, 2008
Deliverables from this project benefitted the following provinces: Alberta; Ontario;