NRCan’s national consultations bring long-standing gaps in governance, infrastructure, and coordination into focus, revealing a system with depth but without consistent alignment. Canada is finally starting to ask some long-overdue questions about its geospatial future. […]
User Needs Assessment for the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure published by Natural Resources Canada – HATFIELD CONSULTANTS PARTNERSHIP Hatfield led in partnership with Natural Resources Canada, released outputs from a cross-Canada User Needs Assessment (UNA) […]
The Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation (CCMEO) is the Government of Canada’s centre of excellence for geomatics, mapping and earth observations. –NRCan I’m pretty sure my grade three teacher Mrs. Rathwell at Wakefield […]
Quite of few Canadian geomatics specialists have been scratching our heads since news broke that Canada dropped 3 spots on the international rankings of geospatial readiness this year. The rankings only started in 2017 so […]
Last week I saw a tweet that caught my attention from Europe. Four students taking the Geographical information management and applications (GIMA) masters program had put out a survey focused on the Canadian Geospatial Data […]
Here’s your chance to express your needs and priorities around geospatial data and spatial data infrastructure, and help shape future activities and initiatives. In collaboration with Natural Resources Canada, Hatfield Consultants are conducting a series […]
Recently, I read an article about the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) that seeks to explain why the CGDI, among many things, is relevant. While the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation (CCMEO) who is […]
The Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) is an initiative of Natural Resources Canada that began in 2001. The CGDI does not refer to a specific database, but rather a collection of Canadian geospatial resources available […]