Identity area
Type of entity
Authorized form of name
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Geographic Information Branch
Other form(s) of name
Ontario. Geographic Information Branch
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Description area
Dates of existence
History
The Branch was established within the Information Resources Division in 1991. Initially entitled the Land and Resource Information Branch from 1991-1992, this Branch would be re-named five more times between 1992 and 2004: (1) Natural Resource Information Branch (1993-1996); (2) Natural Resources Information Management Branch (1997-1998); (3) Information Management and Systems Branch (1999); (4) Natural Resources Information Branch (2000); and (5) Information Resource Management Branch (2001-2005). In 2006, the Branch was renamed to the Geographic Information Branch and held that name until 2013. As of 2014, the Branch was re-named the Mapping and Information Resources Branch.
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Functions, occupations and activities
The Geographic Information Branch ensures the availability of positional and descriptive information about Ontario's land mass and the use of spatial technologies for managing geographic information, and provides leadership in geographic information applications and standards development. Activities include the establishment and maintenance of a provincial geographic referencing system, geodesy, cadastral surveys, cartography, establishment and maintenance of the Provincial Digital Topographic Data Base, geographic information, geographic nomenclature, satellite, airborne remote sensing and natural resource inventories.
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Access points area
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Control area
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Rules and/or conventions used
RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM
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Sources
KWIC Indexes to Government Services, 2004; Ontario Government telephone directories, 2005-2016
Maintenance notes
Archivist(s):
Hock