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Line 20: == History == The SAIF project was established as a means of addressing interoperability between different geographic information systems. Exchange formats of particular prominence at the time included [http://www.gwg.nga.mil/ntb/baseline/docs/digest/part1.pdf DIGEST] (Digital Geographic Information Exchange Standard) and [[SDTS]] (Spatial Data Transfer Specification, later accepted as the Spatial Data Transfer Standard). These were considered as too inflexible and difficult to use. Consequently, the Government of British Columbia decided to develop SAIF and to put it forward as a national standard in Canada. SAIF became a Canadian national standard in 1993 with the approval of the Canadian General Standards Board. The last version of SAIF, published in January 1995, is designated as [http://publications.gc.ca/site/eng/64080/publication.html CGIS-SAIF Canadian Geomatics Interchange Standard: Spatial Archive and Interchange Format: Formal Definition (Release 3.2)], issue CAN/CGSB-171.1-95, catalogue number P29-171-001-1995E.

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