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Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) Access Services
T. Fisher, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Ottawa, ON, Canada
This Canadian governement approved the GeoConnections to implement the CGDI in 1998. GeoConnections will provide client centered access to government information, which is built on a common national framework,using international standards, collected by agencies in cost-efficient partnerships, and provided seamlessly to users within a co-ordinated supportive policy environment.
This paper will describe operational components of the CGDI Access Infrastructure, including a large directory of organizations and geospatial products and services, a distributed search service connected to more 250 remote inventories, an archive of freely available national datasets, reusable tools, such as map widgets and gazeteers and application programming interfaces.
This paper will also give examples of some organizations that reusing CGDI Access components in their Web sites.
Session 4, Distributed Data Access (Parallel with Sessions 5 & 6)
Tuesday, 16 January 2001, 8:00 AM-5:28 PM
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