International Steering Committee for Global Mapping
Natural Resources Canada
Slide 12
23-Feb-03
Issues to be overcome (1)
•“capacity”
within National Mapping Agencies:
–countries (Japan, Columbia) are willing to assist other countries in preparing Global Map contribution.
–ESRI grant of software and training to prepare national map and put it into the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure.
–similar program by Intergraph to provide software and training to exploit Open GIS Consortium protocols.
•1:1M
scale is too small for many island nations.
–permit increased/variable data density (~ larger scale) within Global Map.