Communities

Create. Connect. Collaborate. Contribute. Plug in to the ideas, resources and initiatives within Canada’s vibrant and ever-growing geomatics community through GEO.ca Communities.

GEO.ca Communities focus on key topics relevant to Canadians. These spaces are central hubs based on specific themes for federal, provincial, and territorial resources, including related geospatial data. Each theme features insights from collaborators, experts, and working groups to foster exploration and connectivity. Explore Communities here.

Community Profiles

Permafrost Community

The Permafrost Community is a central hub for permafrost information in Canada. Featuring data and tools from contributing provinces and territories.

Canadian Council on Geomatics

CCOG is a federal-provincial-territorial government cooperative body that advances geomatics activities of common interest, and facilitates data collection, interoperability and integration between jurisdictions.

Open Geospatial Consortium

The OGC is a worldwide community committed to making geospatial information FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. OGC standards are free and open to all.

Arctic SDI

Arctic SDI is a collaborative partner-based effort of the National Mapping Agencies of Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the USA. Arctic SDI provides open access to authoritative Arctic reference maps and location-based Arctic data.

First Nations Information Governance Centre

FNIGC offers resources and training in the principles of Ownership, Control, Access and Possession (OCAP) First Nations data and information.

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