Manitoba Land Initiative (MLI)
Announcement
The Province of Manitoba has recently opened up its GIS digital data warehouse on the internet. In a radical departure from previous business models, Manitoba is providing all of its geospatial data free of charge for unrestricted use.
This data repository contains Provincial GIS data holdings including topographic data, base maps, soils maps, land use mapping, cadastral data, forest inventory, digital imagery, geology maps, community base maps, all administrative boundaries, quarter section grids, geographical names, water resource mapping, road maps, and other layers. All data files are supported with two popular download formats along with complete FGDC meta data files. In the near future, we will also be releasing our interactive map servers covering various interactive data themes.
Free access to Manitoba's geographic land related data is intended to improve resource management and decision making, and economic development opportunities for businesses, the general public, and academic institutions who can be hindered by high costs and restrictive use rules for spatial data. Complex licensing requirements and fees have been eliminated and substituted with a simple online registration process where the customer acknowledges the data disclaimer and user agreement. This data warehouse has been developed under the Manitoba Land Initiative (MLI) which is an interdepartmental committee of data producing departments.
You may visit our digital data warehouse web site at the following address http://mli.gov.mb.ca
All that is required is a short registration process and you are on your way to accessing all the files!
Sincerely,
Hartley Pokrant, Director
Information Technology Services Branch
Conservation Department
Box 90 - 200 Saulteaux Cresc.
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3J 3W3
Ph: (204) 945-2929
Fax: (204) 945-4232
E-mail: hpokrant@gov.mb.ca
Project Information
Manitoba Land Initiative (MLI) is a cross-departmental partnership project and corporate approach to Land Information Systems and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the Government of Manitoba. Its goals are to:
1. Harmonize and share government's land related information from different departments and make them available on Intranet and Internet;
2. Integrate and provide access to existing information to decision-makers in areas such as resource management, environmental impact analysis, public safety, sustainable development and encouraging investment in the province.
Its activities address business needs of participating departments and agencies: Agriculture & Food, Industry Trade and Mines, Conservation, Transportation and Government Services, Intergovernmental Affairs, and two special operating agencies: Land Management Services (Government Services) and the Property Registry (Consumer and Corporate Affairs). more...
CARL Response
'This is very good news for university teaching and research. It shows commendable leadership on the part of the Province and should serve as an example to other provinces and to the federal government." says CARL President William Maes, University Librarian, Dalhousie University. more...
