The GCRC is an official Research Centre in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
GCRC research focuses on the application of geographic information processing and management to the analysis of socio-economic issues of interest to society at a variety of scales from the local to the international and the presentation of the results in new, innovative cartographic forms. Cybercartography is a new multimedia, multisensory and interactive online cartography and its main products are cybercartographic atlases using location as a key organizing principle. These atlases create narratives from a variety of different perspectives and include both quantitative and qualitative information. These include stories, art, literature and music as well as socio-economic and environmental information. GCRC research includes: cybercartography, polar research, multisensory cartography (e.g. sound and olfaction), cinématographie, indigenous knowledge, participatory cartography, archiving and preservation, open source technologies and interoperability, the management of geographic information, and Global Map.
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