According to the OECD, over half of the world’s population lives in urban areas and this share is projected to reach 60% by 2030. Cities consume between 60 and 80% of energy production worldwide and […]
According to World Business Council for Sustainable Development, buildings account for 40 % of the world’s energy use. According to the Energy Information Administration n the U.S.in 2011 71% of electric power was consumed by […]
Our website launch parties couldn’t have gone off without the gracious support of the geomatics community from all across Canada. Check out our video to see who we couldn’t have had such a spectacular few […]
GoGeomatics: Welcome to the GoGeomatics Canada community. To begin, can you tell us where you are from and where you have lived throughout your GIS career? Sheila Churchill: I live in Vancouver, British Columbia, I […]
U.S. NIST study In 2004 in a remarkable study the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) attempted to identify and estimate the efficiency losses in the U.S. capital facilities industry resulting from inadequate […]
On September 28th in Toronto, and 29th in Niagara, GoGeomatics Canada held our regular socials and Jonathan Murphy the managing director of GoGeomatics Canada came to hang out with the groups in both locations. We […]
I have frequently blogged about some of the important geospatial standards that have been fostered by the Open Geospatial Consortium, most recently about a new Energy and Utilities Domain Working Group (DWG) for the electric, […]
I believed in 1996 that the future of geography was with technology and I still believe that even more so today. Geography is alive and well in the real world because of technical geography despite […]