According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) in 2010, the BRICS countries Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa contributed about one-quarter of world GDP, compared to 16% in 1990. Also in 2010, […]
State of the world’s climate According to the 2012 State of the Climate report released August, 2013 by the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Four major independent datasets show 2012 was among the 10 warmest years […]
Reprinted from the Ontario Professional Surveyor, Volume 56, No. 2, Spring 2013 Charles Morris was a captain in the Massachusetts militia in the mid 1740s when Britain and France were at war (King Georges War […]
It’s with great pleasure that we share Deanna Sokoloski’s profile with the community. She has been working with us since May 2012 as the GoGeomatics Canada Community Manager. Deanna has proven instrumental in helping to […]
Over forty years, the writer has witnessed a series of transitions and changes in terminology related to changes in the technology. In the sixties, at the federal level, the Surveys and Mapping branch was part […]
In this fascinating study the authors present a way of including the costs of air pollution (sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds, ammonia, particulate matter, and CO2) into the standard set of national accounts […]
The White House has just released a report The Economic Benefits of Increasing Electric Grid Resilience to Weather Outages that was prepared by the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and the Department of Energy’s Office […]
I blogged previously about the OGC GeoPackage specification being available for public comment. Chris Holmes of OpenGeo, who has been a major contributor to the open source geospatial community since joining the GeoServer team as […]