Government Operations committee  Basically, I only wanted to add that the road network that Richard is talking about, we also have that road network, which is negotiated with provinces and territories, and we actually get that. We're working with municipalities as well, currently 200 municipalities, to update th

Government Operations committee  Our business is really in the geospatial world. I think open data is a broader definition. We're certainly happy with the way the situation is currently. We're happy sticking to our knitting.

Government Operations committee  Absolutely.

Government Operations committee  By default, our data is open, so it's already on the open data portal. We also have geo-based data sets—federal, provincial and territorial—that are available through the geo-based portal. We have annual agreements with the provinces to update them, so they get automatically upda

Government Operations committee  I think the answer is yes. I think there's always going to be a role. I think that role is always going to evolve with the technologies. But I'll give you an example of a private sector company actually using the data. Kodiak Exploration, for example, reported to NRCan that $18 m

Government Operations committee  It's Kodiak Exploration.

Government Operations committee  I'll speak to my experience on geospatial data. I highlighted the fact that we had taken a very disciplined approach to our data, well over 100 years. You have to have a couple of things. One, you have to have really good metadata in a current context, and that could mean how you

Government Operations committee  Again, I'll speak to the domain of the geospatial, which I would argue is the reference, because everything happens in a place, right? So, on that geospatial stuff, we work with the Ordnance Survey in Great Britain. We sit on the Open Geospatial Consortium with, I think, 437 orga

Government Operations committee  From the geospatial data component, we were certainly working very closely with Treasury Board. I mentioned earlier the Federal Committee on Geomatics and Earth Observations, which is a government-wide approach to looking at the horizontal coordination of our geospatial data and

Government Operations committee  We have both. We have horizontal and vertical. We're drilling down into the very specific component, and there is a horizontal approach. We're already working with Treasury Board on it.

Government Operations committee  No.

Government Operations committee  Thank you. Mr. Chair and committee members… first, let me explain that geo-data is the basic geographic or geoscience data that describes Canada’s land mass. Some notable examples of this kind of information include geological information about where mines are and where you can