GeoBC creates and manages geospatial information and products as well as provides consultation services across all natural resource sector (NRS) agencies. While this may sound like a complicated and purely technical role, in practice the group has four very tangible areas of focus directly tied to NRS business functions:
- To create and maintain a standard set of base spatial data (e.g. roads, hydrology, terrain, etc.) with the goal of progressively making this information open and accessible for use by all,
- Providing assurance for two of the Provincial Crown land registries, the information repositories of Provincial rights and obligations – specifically Tantalis and the Integrated Land and Resource Registry (ILRR),
- Offering Crown land research expertise to other government agencies, both rights-granting and otherwise, and;
- Offering a service for custom solutions to NRS business issues (e.g. developing mapping products and visualization for avalanche awareness, providing assistance to treaty teams, spatial design and project management support for clean energy projects, etc.)
