Announcement of Opportunity for a joint Canada-USA spatial data infrastructure project
October 15 2007 - December 18 2007
Deadline for submissions through Grants.gov is 2:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) December 18, 2007.
GeoConnections and the U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) are pleased to release their sixth joint request for proposals for a Canada-USA spatial data infrastructure project. They are now soliciting proposals to develop cross-border, regional online mapping systems that access geospatial data and information from distributed sources over the Internet. The regional mapping application developed by these joint demonstration projects will cover a geography including both Canada and the USA, and will enhance further understanding of the complexities, challenges and effort required in utilizing geospatial information to address an issue common to the two countries.
The project to be funded will deal with a common priority issue that results in increased information sharing while making available new content and services online. Initiatives that involve cross-border regional collaboration that support decision making within the following themes will be preferred:
- Public Safety and Security: Situational Awareness and Management of Consequence; and Critical Infrastructure Identification;
- Aboriginal and Native American peoples: land and resource management or community planning.
The project will also demonstrate collaborative approaches and decision support in solving community issues utilizing distributed data (thematic and framework) and through the use or refinement of existing FGDC, GeoConnections, and International standards. Projects will establish a collaborative process that provides different kinds of organizations and disciplines with the ability to integrate and share geospatial data publicly by using the technologies that form part of the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) and National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI).
Proposals will be accepted from government departments or agencies (local, provincial/territorial or federal), Aboriginal organisations, Crown corporations, academic institutions, private-sector organizations, or non-government organizations and must include at least two Canadian and two U.S. organizations.
For questions concerning this opportunity, Canadian applicants can call Denis Poliquin, Regional Atlas Advisor, at (613) 992-1514 or via email at dpoliqui@nrcan.gc.ca
2008 NSDI CAP Category 4: Joint Canadian and United States Spatial Data Infrastructure Project Document: Click here if you can download the document in PDF format (79 KB) as a reference only.
You must click here to get the complete announcement and attachments from the U.S. National Spatial Data Infrastructure Cooperative Agreements Program (NSDI CAP)