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Environment and Climate Change Canada

Environment and Climate Change Canada runs GeoNetwork as its central catalogue for geospatial data. With GeoCat Live, operating and maintaining that environment is transformed: secure, current and scalable, without extra load on internal IT.

Fully managed GeoNetwork operations
Zero Added IT burden
National Canada-wide catalogue

Organisation: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Sector: Government
Deployment: ISO 19115 OGC API

[ The challenge ]

Running a national catalogue in-house

Maintenance on internal IT

A central GeoNetwork catalogue that had to be patched, upgraded and scaled by a team whose real work is climate and environmental science.

Upgrades competing with research

Every maintenance window and security advisory pulled internal capacity away from the mandate the department is funded for.

Improvements kept slipping

Work on search quality and metadata could not start while simply keeping the environment available came first.

[ The solution ]

A familiar environment, fully managed

ECCC transitions to GeoCat Live. Rather than replacing the existing GeoNetwork environment, the focus is on transforming how it is operated and maintained. Updates, security patches, performance optimisation and scaling are managed by GeoCat, while users continue working in a familiar environment without disruption.

GeoCat Live GeoNetwork ISO 19115 OGC API