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.