Benefit	Benefit Description
Job Creation	The project will involve the direct hiring of three additional permanent development staff at Galdos Systems. Downstream benefits are estimated to include an additional two developers and two marketing staff. When combined with the impacts of other projects (leverage) and capital investment that this project will make possible, Galdos anticipates adding an additional 5 staff over the next two years.
New skills and knowledge	Galdos is an acknowledged world leader in the application of XML technology to spatial systems. This project will enhance this position and ensure that GML technology becomes the practical world standard for information infrastructures.
Quality of Life	The project enables the CGDI to become a situation infrastructure capable of responding to and supporting the management of critical events and dynamic situations including water pollution and quality control, air pollution, sustainable forest management, traffic management, accident investigation and mitigation, disease management, and response to natural disasters.
Public Good	It is our strong belief that information infrastructures can become an important vehicle for land use management and land use planning, including in particular the management of land ownership and development disputes.
Response to national priorities	The project is thus responsive to key national priorities such as air/water pollution, land claims and land management, and the mitigation of natural disasters.
Export	Galdos has already laid the ground work for exporting the Next Generation Stateless Catalogue technology developed in this project through collaborations and subcontracts with major international corporations, including NTT Data, NTT DoCoMo Kansai, Hitachi,, Autodesk, Microsoft. Galdos has also begun to lay similar groundwork with government agencies in Europe (G.B. Ordnance Survey), Asia (DPC, METI, Korea Highway Corporation), and the United States (Census, EPA, FGDC, NIMA). Galdos has signed a distribution and development agreement with InComKorea. InComKorea will be responsible for the development and installation of information systems based on Galdos product technology in Korea. Similar agreements are being negotiated in other countries.
Competitivness	Galdos has taken the GML standard from an idea to a working international standard. This has required a combination of technical knowledge and political savvy. This project will enable us to take the next step and transform these technical and market insights into product sales in international markets competing in tough markets such as the United States and Japan. Galdos will also contribute to the development of spatial information expertise through the provision of courses and course materials to Canadian Universities and technical institutes. One such agreement has already been negotiated with the British Columbia Institute of Technology, the University of British Columbia and others are now under development. This will contribute to the pool of skilled software developers required to compete in the international market.
New Products	The Next Generation Stateless Catalogue will be offered as a commercial product. Galdos also intends to develop additional commercial products based on the results of this project that leverage the ability of the plug-in API mechanism to provide Catalogue profile support.