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New directors were appointed at the January 26, 2016 Board of Directors Meeting in Calgary: Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties – Soren Odegard Alberta Forest Products Association – John Rogers Alberta Urban Municipalities Association – Nichole Adams AtcoGas – Melanie Bayley Fortis Alberta – Brian Murray   Please see our Governance overview to see […]

ADP Executive Director Erik Holmlund was invited to write an article describing the organization’s unique and successful P3 business model: Alberta Data Partnerships: A Public-Private Partnership to SDI. The article outlines the successes of the organization and the benefits to Alberta since its inception in the late 90s. GIM International was launched more than 25 years […]

Following an RFP process, Alberta Data Partnerships Ltd. (ADP) has engaged MMM Group Ltd. to conduct a review of mapping systems, funding models and selected specifications of provinces across Canada and selected international jurisdictions. This will allow ADP to: – identify gaps in service delivery, our stakeholder engagement process, governance structure and data product specifications; – […]

Spatial Data Warehouse Ltd. (SDW) will now be known as Alberta Data Partnerships Ltd. (ADP). This strategic change allows us to align the organization with our core focus, which is to develop relationships with our stakeholders and partners, and work together to find solutions that will benefit Alberta. Our relationship with AltaLIS has not changed, […]

Alberta Data Partnerships (ADP) is proud to provide the report and participant data from the Spatial Data Warehouse (SDW) Stakeholder Sessions held in Edmonton on November 13 and Calgary on November 17, along with the presentations from each day. ADP thanks all participants for their comments, questions, and critiques about our business and spatial data […]

The former Mapping Data License Agreement (MDLA) between ADP and the Government of Alberta is being replaced with a new, forward-looking agreement called the Mapping Data Agreement (MDA). Alberta Data Partnerships Ltd. (SDW), a non-profit Part 9 Corporation focused of data licensing and distribution, is excited to announce that it has signed a long term […]

SDW held the third External Advisory Group (EAG) meeting for users of its Digital Integrated Dispositions (DIDs) mapping dataset in Edmonton on March 13, 2014. The DIDs EAG allows SDW to enter into regular consultations with a representative sample of key users and stakeholders of the DIDs and DIDs+ datasets. These mapping datasets were built […]

Spatial Data Warehouse Ltd. (SDW) is pleased to introduce Erik Holmlund as its new Executive Director. The Board of Directors is excited to have Erik on board in this newly created position to lead the organization, execute the SDW Strategic Plan and to identify and capitalize on new opportunities that exist for one of the […]

SDW/AltaLIS are pleased to announce the release of a new product line: Utility Data. The first dataset to be released is Fortis Facility Data. This data is comprised of 4 GIS layers: Poles, Conductors, Street Lights, and Service Territory. Over 1 Million poles, over 117,000 kilometers of primary and secondary lines, and an array of […]

SDW held the second External Advisory Group (EAG) meeting for users of its Digital Integrated Dispositions (DIDs) mapping dataset in Edmonton on November 28, 2012. This EAG will meet regularly to discuss details of changes or enhancements being considered for the DIDs data set. The DIDs mapping dataset was originally built, and is now maintained, […]