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GeoConnections (www.geoconnections.org) is a national partnership, led by Natural Resources Canada, to build the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) - the technology, standards, access systems and protocols needed to harmonize Canada's geospatial databases so they are easily available over the Internet. GeoConnections also coordinates the investments and developments of the various partners - federal, provincial, territorial and private sector - and the increasing volume of geospatial data.
Geospatial data defines a thing, a concept, an idea, a direction or a trend, its interrelationship with other things and concepts, and how the interrelationship is affected by the dimension of time. A geospatial data set is a collection of information...