Featured Stories: Volume 6 No. 1

• Building a Successful Enterprise (300KB)
  For nearly two decades, the City of Richmond, BC, has been using GIS to build and analyze spatial datasets in order to answer geographic questions about the City and improve decisionmaking. GIS is used for a wide variety of applications in departments throughout the enterprise including Engineering, Policy Planning, and Parks. In September 1999, the City launched an Intranet tool that was developed to bring together data from across the enterprise and provide all City staff with access to spatial information. Today, GIS is not only used by specialists for in-depth analysis and planning but is also used by hundreds of City staff to answer their own spatial questions quickly and accurately.
  
  
• Mining Maps Online (204KB)
  Geography provides the framework for the acquisition, development, and interpretation of the complex spatial and tabular datasets used for mining and earth sciences. Mapping, spatial concepts, and time/space operations technology are absolutely essential to effective mining.
  
  
• SIG pour un programme d'aide financière (227KB)
  La Ville de Laval est située dans la région de Montréal (province de Québec). Sa population 2002 est évaluée par Statistique Canada à près de 355 000 habitants. Sa superficie est d'approximativement 274 km2.
  

• Using GIS for a Financial Aid Program (226KB)
  The City of Laval is located close to Montreal, Quebec, covers an area of approximately 274 km2, and has an estimated population of 355,000.
  
  
• MNDM Launches CLAIMaps III  (469KB)
  In January 2003, Jim Wilson, the Ontario Minister of Northern Development and Mines, officially launched the next phase of Ontario's award winning web-based mining land tenure system, CLAIMaps III. According to Minister Wilson, "Accessibility to current, accurate mining land tenure data is a critical component for sustainable development and a priority of the Ontario government. CLAIMaps III provides all our clients with immediate access to Ontario mining land status from anywhere in the world."
  
  
• Linear Networks for Water/Wastewater (277KB)
  The Regional Municipality of Halton (Halton), incorporated in 1974 by the Province of Ontario, is comprised of four municipalities: the City of Burlington and the Towns of Halton Hills, Milton, and Oakville. Halton Region is responsible for many programs and services including the safe and efficient delivery of water and wastewater services, waste management, planning and development, land ambulance, public health, social housing, and social programs.
  
  
• Planning and Implementing a GIS (224KB)
  Planning and implementing an enterprise GIS is a tremendous responsibility. As a GIS manager, it is important to understand how GIS can be used as a strategic tool to meet the goals and objectives of your organization. This knowledge will help you integrate GIS into the decision-making process, increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the organization, and its chances of ongoing success.
  
  
• Mapping a Course for the Future (78KB)
  Virtually every dimension of life is now touched by geomatics. With the constant evolution of new applications, this growing Canadian sector needs post-secondary graduates trained in geomatics principles and technologies. Recent studies predict an even greater demand in the coming years.