This piece is generated by my experiences with my own account @RebelGeo and as Tweeter for Canadian Geographic Education @CanGeoEdu. GoGeomatics 2014 Canadian Twitter rankings for geomatics reminded me that I promised to write about […]
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (“MDA” or the “Company”) (TSX: MDA), a global communications and information company, announced that it has been awarded a contract by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for its Geospatial Terminal […]
ING Robotic Aviation is partnering with ASG Mapping to rigorously assess and develop the application of small robotic aircraft systems for gathering high quality, positionally accurate, and interoperable geospatial data. This project is focused on […]
Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) have formed an OGC Geospatial User Feedback Standards Working Group (SWG). The purpose of this SWG will be to reach consensus on a standard way to encode users’ […]
An Urban Planning Domain Working Group (DWG) is being chartered to define the role for OGC standards and related activities related to urban planning. It is also intended to provide an open forum for the […]
Auracle Geospatial Science, a Canadian remote sensing company, is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with Skybox Imaging (Skybox), to distribute Skybox’s high-resolution imagery, high-definition video and analytics within the Canadian market. […]
Google has had a fleet of 10 or more driverless cars on the roads in Florida, Nevada, and California for a couple of years that by now have logged over a million driverless miles. The […]
The Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) has published a fascinating analysis of the economics of leaving the grid. The central thesis is that solar PV and electricity storage enables consumers to leave the grid completely. Solar […]