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 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:43:21 GMT 2008-12-01T22:43:21Z en_CA http://www.geoconnections.org/en/newsmedia/whatsnew/getDoc=844 <p>On behalf of GeoConnections, the Data Licensing Guide Working Group recently issued version two of The Dissemination of Government Geographic Data-Best Practices Guide. This updated guide enhances the initial version in several ways.</p> Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.geoconnections.org/en/newsmedia/whatsnew/getDoc=844 2008-11-26T05:00:00Z http://www.geoconnections.org/en/newsmedia/whatsnew/getDoc=843 <p>In June 2008, the results of a GeoBase land-cover user needs assessment initiated by the National Land Cover Project Team were released. This team is composed of members of The Land Cover Community of Practice (LCCoP), federal agencies involved with sector-specific land-cover monitoring. DB Geoservices Inc. was contracted to conduct the study.</p> Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.geoconnections.org/en/newsmedia/whatsnew/getDoc=843 2008-11-17T05:00:00Z http://www.geoconnections.org/en/newsmedia/whatsnew/getDoc=837 <p> GeoConnections is contributing to an initiative that will help Yukon's Carcross Tagish First Nation (CTFN) to comment on land dispositions and natural resource use and to participate in land-use planning. </p> Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.geoconnections.org/en/newsmedia/whatsnew/getDoc=837 2008-11-13T05:00:00Z http://www.geoconnections.org/en/newsmedia/whatsnew/getDoc=838 <p> GeoConnections is helping to fund a user-needs assessment for the Cree Nation in Quebec. This assessment will be used to direct the next stage of development of the Cree GeoPortal for the Eeyou Istchee Grand Council. </p> Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.geoconnections.org/en/newsmedia/whatsnew/getDoc=838 2008-11-13T05:00:00Z http://www.geoconnections.org/en/newsmedia/whatsnew/getDoc=839 <p> GeoConnections is working with Foothills Research Institute, Alberta Sustainable Resource Development, Jasper National Park, the Town of Hinton and West Fraser Mills to produce a user-needs assessment for a regional online land-management atlas that is compliant with the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI). </p> Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.geoconnections.org/en/newsmedia/whatsnew/getDoc=839 2008-11-13T05:00:00Z http://www.geoconnections.org/en/newsmedia/whatsnew/getDoc=840 <p> GeoConnections is funding a project to help land and resource managers, planners, and policy makers to better understand the implications of integrated land management (ILM) in the Humber River Basin in western Newfoundland. </p> Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.geoconnections.org/en/newsmedia/whatsnew/getDoc=840 2008-11-13T05:00:00Z http://www.geoconnections.org/en/newsmedia/whatsnew/getDoc=842 <p>GeoConnections is pleased to make available the architecture for a multi-agency collaboration system for situational awareness. With support from GeoConnections, Public Safety Canada is leading an initiative to develop, design and implement a system to share and provide access to geospatial situational awareness information across multiple organizational domains. The architecture is the blueprint by which the future multi-agency system will be built.</p> Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.geoconnections.org/en/newsmedia/whatsnew/getDoc=842 2008-11-13T05:00:00Z http://www.geoconnections.org/en/newsmedia/whatsnew/getDoc=841 <p> GeoConnections is contributing funds to a project that will assess health practitioners' geospatial information requirements for Alternate Level of Care (ALC) Patient-flow Portals. </p> Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.geoconnections.org/en/newsmedia/whatsnew/getDoc=841 2008-11-11T05:00:00Z