Canadian Interoperability Day April 23, 2004 MAPSTER 2.0

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Canadian Interoperability DayApril 23, 2004
MAPSTER 2.0

• Dwight McCullough
• Fisheries and Oceans Canada
• Pacific Region

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DFO Mandate

• Fisheries and Oceans Canada is the lead federal
  government department responsible for developing
  and implementing policies and programs in support
  of Canada's economic, ecological and scientific
  interests in oceans and inland waters.

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DFO Business Requirements

• DFO staff are engaged in the planning and
  management of
• important resource based activities. Examples
  include
• Watershed Fish Sustainability Programs
• Species at Risk
• Development referrals / assessments / major
  project reviews
• Oceans Planning
• Aquaculture
• Coastal Zone Integrated Management
• Expected offshore oil and gas exploration

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DFO Information Requirements

• Recent survey results (2003) indicate DFO Habitat
  staff were challenged with locating, accessing,
  and integrating important spatial information as
  it is often housed within multiple government and
  non-government organizations.
• In addition, staff did not have access to
  convenient, simple tools to create spatial data,
  upload standalone spatial datasets received from
  others, or search efficiently for spatial
  datasets vital to staff programs and projects.
• Staff require access to physical, social and
  biological spatial information. Examples include
  TRIM, NTDB, CHS marine charts, orthophotos,
  cadastral, marine resource mapping, fish
  presence, habitat mapping, salmon escapement,
  etc

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DFO Information Requirements

• An internal working group comprised of both
  business and technical representatives was
  established (HIMWG).
• The HIMWG represent the fish and fish habitat
  information requirements of all habitat staff
  within the Pacific Region.
• Access to spatial information through
  Interoperability was ranked as a high priority
  by the HIMWG as this capability was deemed
  critical to the success of DFO programs and
  projects.
• The HEB GIS Unit was tasked by the HIMWG to
  develop MAPSTER 2.0, an Interoperable, Open GIS
  Consortium Inc. (OGC) compliant web mapping
  application.

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MAPSTER 2.0 Development

• The DFO HEB GIS Unit developed MAPSTER 2.0 using
  ESRI ArcIMS software and the Web Mapping Service
  (WMS) and Web Feature Service (WFS) OGC compliant
  connectors.
• University of Minnesota MapServer was
  integrated into the
• application to support the GIS file upload
  function.
• The MAPSTER 2.0 customised interface was
  developed using Moxi Media's (Vancouver, BC)
  OGC-compliant Internet Mapping Framework (OGC
  IMF)
• Available in both official Canadian languages
• FGDC compliant Metadata available

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Direct Benefits

• Implementation of the OGC specifications
  facilitates, for the first time ever, DFO staff
  access to all BC Government TRIM basemaps, TRIM
  orthophotos, Forest Cover mapping, high quality
  road network data, etc.
• Other OGC compliant sites will be able to access
  and integrate spatial information from the
  MAPSTER 2.0 mapservices.
• Operational direct dollar savings (no data
  management)
• Registered with the GeoConnections Discovery
  Portal

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Future Enhancements MAPSTER 2.1

• Existing FGDC compliant metadata will be
  available for spatial or keyword searches through
  implementation of an OGC compliant metadata
  search engine. The search engine interface will
  also facilitate connections to any other OGC
  compliant web map services so that DFO staff may
  access and query other map layers not native to
  MAPSTER 2.0.
• The addition of several more important OGC and
  non-OGC sourced spatial datasets including
  cadastral data, water use information,
  development review information, and aerial
  photography flight line / photo catalogues.
• Development of an attribute query tool which
  will select sets, or subsets, of spatial features
  and display those features with a highlight
  colour.

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Future Enhancements MAPSTER 2.1

• Style Layer Descriptors allows users to control
  the cartographic symbolisation of map features
• Capability to plot poster size (ANSI D and E
  size) maps

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