Recent News
CMA Web App Manual

A guided user manual for the CMA Web GIS application has been published. The manual describes how to access, navigate and query the map as well as how to locate metadata records for the data layers.
Jamaica National Stakeholder Meeting

The First National Stakeholder Meeting on the Development of the Jamaica Marine Atlas was held at the Office of the Prime Minister, Kingston, Jamaica on the 25th of May 2011. The meeting brought together data managers, GIS specialists, administrators and researchers from a number of government agencies and university bodies (most of which comprise the National Council on Ocean and Coastal Zone Management of Jamaica) as a preliminary step towards the development of Jamaica’s national atlas.
Developer Course on Web-Atlas TechnologiesFrom the 25th to the 29th of April 2011, CMA participants identified as software developers for the project took part in a training course on web-atlas technologies at the offices of the Coastal Zone Management Unit in Barbados. This highly technical course covered a range of open-source software and scripting products which will be used for the development of the regional atlas, and could easily be adopted by national atlas project developers for their products.
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Barbados National Stakeholder MeetingOn the 2nd of March 2011, representatives from government agencies, academic institutions and NGOs gathered at the Blue Horizon Hotel, Rockley, Barbados for the First National Stakeholder Meeting on the Development of a National Marine Atlas for Barbados; and the second national stakeholder meeting under the banner of the CMA project. The meeting was the first step in the development of the Barbadian initiative, which will involve the collaboration of several government departments, educational institutions and private data holders to collect, properly catalogue, and make available to the wider stakeholder community local coastal and marine data.
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