GeoAlliance Canada was an
umbrella organization
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founded in 2015. The organization addresses sector-wide strategic priorities by pooling the energy and resources of existing Canadian business, non-profit, academia and government organizations in the
geomatics
Geomatics is defined in the ISO/TC 211 series of standards as the "discipline concerned with the collection, distribution, storage, analysis, processing, presentation of geographic data or geographic information". Under another definition, it ...
sector.
History
GeoAlliance Canada was formed by the Canadian Geomatics Community Round Table, a collaborative group of professionals from all fields of geomatics. The group met regularly to consider the challenges that the industry would be facing in the upcoming years, propose solutions and strategies that could help guide the direction of the sector and strengthen it for the years to come. Seven strategy dimensions were used to create the Pan-Canadian Geomatics Strategy document with input from the
geospatial
Geographic data and information is defined in the ISO/TC 211 series of standards as data and information having an implicit or explicit association with a location relative to Earth (a geographic location or geographic position). It is also call ...
community that helped the strategy development process, leading to the formation of GeoAlliance Canada.
This organization appears to be defunct, with the last live website date of July 7, 2020.
See also
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Canadian Institute of Geomatics The Canadian Institute of Geomatics (CIG, ) is a not-for-profit scientific association based in Ottawa, Ontario,devoted to the development of geomatics in Canada. It was previously known as "Canadian Institute of Surveying and Mapping" and the .
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Geomatics Association of Nova Scotia
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Tecterra
References
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External links
GeoAlliance Canada Official site(defunct)
Canadian Geomatics Community Round Table(defunct)
Canadian Geomatics Community Round Table & the Pan-Canadian Geomatics Strategy
Scientific organizations based in Canada
Geomatics organizations
Surveying of Canada