The GeoConnections Program of the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation, Natural Resources Canada is responsible for leading national geospatial information management standards for Canada. The development and adoption of standards is based on consultation and complex technical discussions on the global stage via a variety of mechanisms. The Open Geospatial Consortium Interoperability Program includes a Testbed Program to kick-start and evolve nascent standards technologies. This contract brings together requirements from the Canadian Forestry Service and Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation to further two emerging technology streams with global consultation and engineering. MapML is intended to simplify complex map services into a browser environment for adoption by major browswers (e.g. FireFox, Chrome, etc). The Cloud computing envrionment for Earth Observation Data assesses massive processing environments within a standards context and lessons learned are co-ordinated with other Government of Canada Cloud initiatives.
