Providing a Geographic Gateway to Nova Scotia

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Providing a Geographic Gateway to Nova Scotia
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Britney Spears, Pop Singer
"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like
Canada."
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An On Line Atlas of / for NSAtlas Content
TodayTechnology deployedOutlook
Agenda
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Atlas of / for NS (1954)
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Atlas of / for NS (1992)
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Atlas of / for NS (2002-2004)
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Atlas of / for NS (2005)
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"The indispensable first step to getting the
things you want out of life is this decide what
you want.Ben Stein
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"The indispensable first step to getting the
things you want out of life is this decide what
you want.Ben Stein
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Failure is not reaching your goal, but in
having no goal to reach. Benjamin Mays
Technology
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Vision
encourages the creation of corporate geographic
information resources collected, maintained, and
distributed to accepted standards and shared
amongst all users within the Province to support
decision making and to reduce duplication of
effort.
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Guiding Principles

• Create data once, and use it many times
• Take a corporate approach
• Share data and information freely
• Adhere to the approved Standards
• Make Nova Scotias geographic data discoverable
• Maximize partnerships and relationships

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ATLAS OF NOVA SCOTIA
Provincial Database
Federal Database
END USER
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Benefits (of Distributed Architecture)-
partnership based application - reduced
infrastructure costs e.g. data store
Technology
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Pioneers Get the ArrowsSettlers Get the
Land. Unknown
Technology
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Making a Distributed Architecture Work !
Technology
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software components that are accessible on the
Internet are reusable are available to
both applications and web-site developers The
casual Internet surfer does not use web services
directly, but will benefit from them
Technology
What is a Web Service (and Why) ?
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Additional Benefits Data providers can
publish (NOT PUSH ) Users can "consume" the
geographic service and not worry about
proprietary file formats. Users can add
different geographic services from all over the
world and overlay data in a single map.
Technology
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contributes to the geographic infrastructure
forNova Scotians
The Atlas of Nova Scotia
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Outlook
People - More of them ! Processes
- Agreements Technology - Faster ! and
Infrastructure - Alignment with
Atlas of Canada
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Our lives are not determined by what happens to
us but by how we react to what happens, not by
what life brings to us, but by the attitude we
bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain
reaction of positive thoughts, events, and
outcomes. It is a catalyst, a spark that creates
extraordinary results.
Questions ? / Comments !
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Visitgeonova.ca
Ed Light [phone] lighted_at_gov.ns.ca
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"Obstacles are those frightful things you see
when you take your eyes off your goal.Henry Ford