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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.

Discovering Geospatial Resources

Geodata Discovery Service - (Endorsed Standard)
Metadata for Geodata - (Endorsed Standard)
Catalog Services Interface - (Recommendation Paper)

Viewing Geospatial Data

Web Map Service (WMS) - (Endorsed Standard)
Web Map Context Document - (Endorsed Standard)
Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) - (Endorsed Standard)
Tile Mapping Service (TMS) - (Endorsed Standard)
Geolinking Service (GLS) - (Discussion Paper)
KML - (Endorsed standard)

Accessing Geospatial Data

GeoRSS - (Endorsed Standard)
Geolinked Data Access Service (GDAS) - (Endorsed Standard)
Web Coverage Service (WCS) - (Endorsed Standard)
Web Feature Service (WFS) - (Endorsed Standard)
Filter Encoding - (Endorsed Standard)
Geographic Markup Language (GML) - (Endorsed Standard)
Gazetteer Service - (Discussion Paper)

Manipulating Geospatial Data

Web Processing Service (WPS) - (Endorsed Standard)


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

For information and resources supporting the Government of Canada Standard on GeoSpatial Data specifically, please click here