Project Summary
In May of 2002, the
Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) and
GeoConnections Canada awarded
a Category 4 grant from the 2002 National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI)
Cooperative Agreements Program (CAP) to a multi-sector team of
project partners for the development of a framework for geospatial data
essential for research, management, and business operations in the Great
Lakes region. This “Lake Ontario – St. Lawrence River (LOSLR) Framework
Data Project” will integrate, afford discovery of, and begin to provide
for the long-term storage, maintenance, and flexible accessibility of a
number of “framework data” layers. These include shoreline, political units,
transportation features, watersheds, hydrography, conservation management
areas, orthoimagery, and elevation (hypsographic and topometric) data.
The project is designed to provide a scalable system with
respect to new participants, data types, geographies, and data uses, and to
augment the growing knowledge base by documenting all procedures, policies,
and lessons learned, and making these widely available.
