International Steering Committee for Global Mapping
Natural Resources Canada
Slide 15
23-Feb-03
Towards a second generation Global
Map
•to
enable greater participation and hasten completion while making it easier to assemble and use for global, regional, national and local applications.
•considerations:
–permit variable data density (scale).
–permit native data structures and formats used in common commercial GIS.
–distributed (rather than centralized) access.
–additional thematic layers.
–include ocean bathymetry and thematic information.