DMTI Spatial Inc. (DMTI), Canada's leading provider of Location Intelligence
solutions, is thrilled to celebrate ten years of its SMART (Spatial
Mapping Academic Research Tools) program. The program assists a
consortium of libraries at over forty Canadian universities and
colleges, including the University of Toronto, York University and the
University of British Columbia, reaching over 9000 students and faculty
members annually. The aim of the SMART program is to provide affordable
access to data in support of social science, engineering, research,
business and environmental geographic educational programs. This data
has helped individuals at member institutions with such impactful
projects as determining emergency routes and plotting the best locations
for hospitals and new energy sources. DMTI has lent continued support
by providing licenses for its data products, including CanMap® and Platinum Postal CodeOM Suite,
to these institutions to use for teaching and research purposes. Over
the past decade, DMTI contributions have equated to over $70 million
worth of software and data.
"The SMART program really opened the door for academics wishing to use
Canadian spatial data," said Marcel A.J. Fortin, GIS and Map Librarian,
Map and Data Library, University of Toronto. Mr. Fortin manages the
relationship with DMTI on behalf of the consortium and plays an
instrumental role in supporting the program and the participating
institutions. "Prior to the SMART program, there were few opportunities
for university students and faculty to use quality Canadian mapping data
for research and teaching. DMTI's data is now very prevalent at SMART
program institutions, being utilized in everything from first year
lectures to more complex projects like advanced geocoding and the
creation of 3D elevation models."
"It was very generous of DMTI Spatial Inc. to provide Canadian academic
institutions a suite of vector data, DEM, imagery and geocoding
software through the SMART Program, especially at a time when geospatial
data was not readily available or affordable," said Trudy Bodak,
Librarian Emeritus, York University. "At York University, the data was
heavily used by graduate and undergraduate students for a variety of
projects including plotting emergency routes, travel times and bicycle
routes, and determining the best locations for new golf courses,
hospitals and wind turbines. I always used DMTI data as an example in my
GIS Library instruction classes, because there is so much value and
flexibility in using it for research analysis."
"DMTI is extremely proud of our involvement over the past decade with
the SMART program, with our data being a part of everything from
introductory GIS classes to helping plot new hospital locations," said
John Fisher, CEO, DMTI. "It is important for us to support Canada's
universities and colleges, helping these current and future leaders in
the community by providing the world-class data they need to stay at the
top of their field."
For more information regarding DMTI Location Intelligence solutions please visit www.dmtispatial.com
About DMTI Spatial Inc.
DMTI has been providing industry leading enterprise Location Intelligence
solutions for more than a decade to Global 2000 companies and
government agencies. DMTI's world-class Location Hub platform uniquely
identifies, validates and maintains a universe of location-based data.
DMTI is the creator of market leading Mapping Solutions and maintains
the gold standard for GIS location-based data in Canada.
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