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http://arctic-sdi.org/The aim of the Arctic SDI is to provide politicians, governments, policy makers, scientists, pri-vate enterprises and citizens in the Arctic with access to geographically related Arctic data, digital maps and tools to facilitate monitoring and decision making.The Arctic SDI is an infrastructure that provides a web portal with easy access to:
• geoportal for geospatial data viewing and discovery
• searchable metadata catalogue
• authoritative reference data as a Web Map Service (WMS)
• thematic data
The Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure is cooperation between the 8 National Mapping Agen-cies of Canada, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, USA and Denmark. It is based on a voluntary multilateral cooperation and focused on accessible authoritative geospatial reference data.The Arctic SDI Geoportal is based on Oskari (http://www.oskari.org), which is an open source framework - originally developed in the National Land Survey of Finland - for browsing, shar-ing and analyzing of geographic information, utilizing in particular distributed spatial data infrastructures. The framework is used as a basis of the Arctic SDI Geoportal as well as a significant number of other geoportals, Web Gis applications and eGovernment services.

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