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Toronto, ON - The Regional Municipality of York was recently presented with an Award of Excellence at ESRI Canada's Regional User Conference in Toronto. John Houweling, Ontario Regional Manager, ESRI Canada , presented the Award in recognition of the Region's "Advancing YorkExplorer" project.
"YorkExplorer delivers the high standards for customer service that our residents demand," said Bill Fisch, Regional Chair and CEO. "Everyone benefits from ready access to York Region geospatial information: our local municipal partners, the public and private sectors, students and teachers . We are pleased to be recognized with this award from ESRI Canada." The Advancing YorkExplorer project improves the access and utility of geographic information by citizens, government agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and York Region staff. The project was completed in March 2005. This project funded by York Region and GeoConnections, had three major objectives: To publish web services of geographic information using ArcIMS that are compliant with Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) web map services (WMS).
"This award is in recognition of the leadership and integration demonstrated by the Region's geomatics team to fully exploit the power of ArcIMS, including the ArcIMS metadata explorer and OGC interoperability extensions," said Mr. Houweling. "We are very pleased to be recognizing York Region for their efforts." York Region has published metadata for the majority of its geographic datasets, for all of its current external web services, and will soon be publishing metadata of its publicly-available map products. Key geographic datasets of the Town of Richmond Hill, a project partner, are also online. The Region has published four OGC web map services for anyone to use at no charge. Nine interactive map views are publicly available through YorkAtlas, and six other views for collaborative programs require account-based access. The Region has benefited from the "Advancing YorkExplorer" project with the new ability to rapidly deploy interactive mapping functionality to environmental assessment project websites such as the 19th Avenue (YDSS Interceptor) project. Residents are able to map their address in relation to the project study area and are invited to join the notification list. YorkExplorer continues to be enhanced to create efficiencies and improve customer service while taking advantage of technological advances. York Region looks forward to a leading role in future projects with provincial and federal governments in the use of web technology and geographic information. YorkExplorer was also recognized in the August 2005 issue of the international industry magazine, GeoWorld, as the Resource of the Month. About the Regional Municipality of York: With the strategic goal of access to managed geospatial information, York Region's Geomatics Branch develops business solutions and re-engineers business processes to incorporate geographic information, analysis, and map products. About ESRI Canada: Media Contact:
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