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December 9, 2009

New Brunswick puts more on the map

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Service New Brunswick (SNB) has launched the GeoNB Map Viewer, a new online source of geographic information for the province.

Using geographic information system (GIS) technology from Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) Canada, the web-based tool allows the public to access maps and aerial photos of New Brunswick for free. SNB, a provincially owned corporation, developed a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) to help centrally manage the province's property registries, land assessments, survey control network, topographic maps and other geographically related resources.

"This application has helped us significantly reduce data duplication and inaccuracies to better meet the needs of provincial departments and the public," says Bernie Connors, SDI manager for SNB.

GeoNB Map Viewer represents gigabytes of data that previously was not easily accessible to the public. Its high-resolution aerial photography covers the entire province, for example, whereas other free mapping tools only cover about 10 per cent at that quality.

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		Emergency Management BC (EMBC) and GeoBC received an award of excellence earlier this month for developing the British Columbia Emergency Event Map Viewer (BCeMap) application using Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) Canada’s geographic information system (GIS) technology.

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