The Canadian Council on Geomatics (CCOG) was created in 1972. It is the major federal-provincial-territorial consultative body for geographic information management. CCOG meets twice a year to discuss programs, developments, legislation, and issues relevant to

geomatics Geomatics is defined in the ISO/TC 211 series of standards as the "discipline concerned with the collection, distribution, storage, analysis, processing, presentation of geographic data or geographic information". Under another definition, it ...

. CCOG oversees the

GeoBase GEOBASE is a database, multidisciplinary in scope, which indexes bibliographic information and abstracts for the Geographical, Earth, and Ecological sciences, published by Engineering Information, a subsidiary of Elsevier. The broad subject cove ...

initiative.GeoBase - GeoBase Organization
. Accessed May 15, 2008.

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Canadian Council on Geomatics
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