GeoAlliance Canada is a new Umbrella organization started to help address sector-wide strategic priorities by pooling the energy and resources of existing Canadian business, non-profit, academia and government organizations in the Geomatics sector. The launch of GeoAlliance Canada in 2015 was the culmination of several years of hard work within the Canadian Geomatics Community Round Table (CGCRT).
The CGCRT, a collaborative group of professionals from all fields of the Geomatics met regularly to consider the challenges that the industry would be facing in the upcoming years, propose solutions and strategies that could help guide the direction of the sector and strengthen it for the years to come. Seven strategy dimensions were used to create the Pan-Canadian Geomatics Strategy document with input from the geospatial community that helped the strategy development process. As a result, GeoAlliance Canada was formed.