York Region's Shared Geospatial Infrastructure
At the 2020 Esri User Conference, the Regional Municipality of York (York Region) was honored for its pioneering work in creating a shared geospatial infrastructure that connects partners, breaks down silos, and puts their collective data to work. York Region is the first Canadian organization to win the President’s Award.
For the York Region Data Co-op, sharing is an especially important aspect that collectively supports smaller partner entities that individually lack the resources to adopt spatial technologies. The Co-Op’s common infrastructure represents a modern approach to spatial data infrastructure (SDI) that underpins a truly federated model, a system of systems that interconnect organizations across borders, jurisdictions, and organizations to address regional issues and manage operations collaboratively.
Read Geospatial Infrastructure at Its Best in the Summer 2020 issue of ArcUser magazine to learn more about how York Region shares data, scripts, code, apps, workflows, and training among its constituent organizations.
