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CGDI online training

This online course is designed to introduce you to the various components of the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure, their functionality, and the standards and specifications necessary to implement them.

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Resources & Tools

Standards

By using international standards endorsed for the CGDI, you can share and integrate your data or applications with those from other organizations.

This characteristic offers you two main advantages. First, interoperability will often produce richer and more useful information than a single data set can provide on its own. Consequently, the value of your data or application rises.

And second, you can more easily export your technology, data, and expertise to other countries that adhere to the same international standards. Greater export opportunities mean potentially greater revenues.

Manipulating Geospatial Data

Catalog Services Interface — (Recommendation Paper)

Metadata for Geodata — (Endorsed By TAP)

Service Registry — (Recommendation Paper)

Publishing and Discovering Geospatial Resources

Catalog Services Interface — (Recommendation Paper)

Geodata Discovery Service — (Endorsed By TAP)

Visualizing Geospatial Data

Filter Encoding — (Endorsed By TAP)

Gazetteer Service — (Discussion Paper)

Geolinked Data Access Service — (Recommendation Paper)

Geolinking Service — (Discussion Paper)

Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) — (Endorsed By TAP)

Web Feature Service (WFS) — (Endorsed By TAP)

Web Map Context Document — (Endorsed By TAP)

Web Map Service (WMS) — (Endorsed By TAP)

Accessing Geospatial Data

Filter Encoding — (Endorsed By TAP)

Gazetteer Service — (Discussion Paper)

Geographic Markup Language (GML) — (Endorsed By TAP)

Geolinked Data Access Service — (Recommendation Paper)

Geolinking Service — (Discussion Paper)

GeoRSS - (Endorsed Standard)

Web Coverage Service (WCS) — (Endorsed By TAP)

Web Feature Service (WFS) — (Endorsed By TAP)

Describing Geospatial Resources

Web Feature Service (WFS) — (Endorsed By TAP)

Web Processing Service — (Discussion Paper)

To view a full list of standards and specifications that are endorsed and(or) under investigation by GeoConnections, please click here...