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Success Stories

Everybody loves a winner and here you can discover how partners are using the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) to protect the environment, make Canada safer, manage public health, and deal with issues of importance to Aboriginal people.

Public Health Map Generator Reveals a Path to Better Health Care
The Public Health Map Generator equips health professionals to produce custom online maps that reveal disease patterns across the country, leading to faster and more effective targeted responses.

HealthNet Offers Bird's Eye View of West Nile Virus
the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) recently developed a web-mapping application to better track and analyze the locations of dead birds infected with the West Nile Virus.

Web-based Mapping Brings Breath of Fresh Air to New Brunswick Lung Association
Thanks to a new web-mapping system based on the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI), Lung Association health officials can now better monitor air quality and improve health care for Canadians.

Comité ZIP du Sud-de-l'Estuaire fights pollution and coastal erosion with GIS
Farm-animal manure used as agricultural fertilizer can pollute rivers and streams with fecal coliform bacteria.

DM Solutions scales the summit of the open source web mapping world
Although this insight may offer some emotional relief, Canada's physicians and public health professionals use the FluWatch site for purposes of a more practical nature: tracking flu activity throughout the country and predicting its path.

Grande Prairie Region Improves Emergency Response Tools
Paramedics in Alberta's Grande Prairie region can now reach accident victims more easily... thanks to a Sustainable Communities Initiative (SCI) project involving the Grande Prairie Regional Emergency Medical Service (EMS), the City of Grande Prairie geographic information system (GIS) department and TELUS Geomatics.

EMS Provides Health-care Sector with Missing Link
Understanding why diseases occur is the most important step in combating them. Thanks to some pioneering software from EMS Technologies, Canadian health practitioners now have a powerful new web mapping tool to track diseases and help keep them in check.