Education & Careers
Ethics for the GIS Consultant is Good Business
I just finished a small GIS job for a client. A really small job. They wanted to know where the Crown lands were in a part of New Brunswick. Not sure what they were going […]
Year: 2012
Between the Poles – The Geoff Zeiss Archives
Canadian cities ask for long term infrastructure plan from the federal government
In 2007 the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) commissioned McGill University to survey Canadian municipal governments to determine their infrastructure needs. Based on the responses to the survey, FCM estimated that the municipal infrastructure deficit […]
Between the Poles – The Geoff Zeiss Archives
The evolution of the open source software foundation
Steve Walli of the Outercurve Foundation has published a very perceptive discussion of why the phenomenon of the open source software foundation (neutral non-profit) has become so important in the free and open source software […]
Education & Careers
GIS Training Approaches with Scott Bell
GIS training and teaching is a fascinating endeavor. Undergraduate classes are a mélange of students from disciplines that span the University curriculum. Graduate training is usually highly focused on task-specific outcomes, while professional training can […]
3D Visualization
Cesium open source WebGL virtual globe and mapping Javascript library
Earlier this week on an Eclipse Foundation Locationtech teleconference, Matt Ford of Cesium provided an overview and demonstration of the features of Cesium. You can watch the video here. Cesium is an open source virtual […]
3D Visualization
What to expect in the OpenLayers 3
Last week on an Eclipse Foundation Locationtech teleconference, Tim Schaub of OpenGeo outlined the plans for the next version of OpenLayers. You can watch the video and contribute to the effort here. OpenLayers2 was released […]
Community
GIS Day Ottawa RADARSAT Tour
First off, HAPPY GIS DAY! Twitter was having a hayday with #GISDay tweets, and LinkedIn became a geospatial frenzy. What did you do for GIS Day? GoGeomatics Canada was happy to host our second annual […]
Between the Poles – The Geoff Zeiss Archives
IEA projects that the U.S. will become energy self-sufficient
The International Energy Agency (IEA) in its World Energy Outlook 2012 is projecting that by 2020 the U.S. will surpas Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest oil producer. US oil and gas production, driven by […]