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2005-2015: Ten Years with Google Maps

31 August 2015 Emmanuel Stefanakis | 2015

In February 2005, Google Maps was launched as a desktop web mapping service. A few months later, in June 2005, Google Earth was released for personal computers. Since then, people around the globe have been […]

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BCIT Program Has the GIS Talent You Need

28 August 2015 Karl Kliparchuk | 2014

The BCIT GIS department has been graduating students for 25+ years.  Our students come from BC, but as well, across Canada and international.  Our program is known to be very demanding, and creates students that […]

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WSP to Acquire MMM, a Leading Canadian Engineering Consulting Firm

28 August 2015 GoGeomatics Newsmakers | 2014

WSP Concurrently Announces a $175 Million Bought Deal Public Offering and a $125 Million Private Placement WSP Global Inc. (TSX:WSP) (“WSP” or the “Corporation”) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an arrangement […]

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Finding Common Ground: CGCRT & GeoAlliance Canada

27 August 2015 Robert Maher | 2015

The full title of Ted Chamberlin’s 2003 book is ‘If this is your land, where are your stories ? Finding Common Ground ‘. This title comes from a Gitksan story told to Chamberlin by Peter […]

Between the Poles – The Geoff Zeiss Archives

Java rises to the top of programming languages in the open source community

21 August 2015 Geoff Zeiss

Earlier this week Github published a graph showing the relative popularity of programming languages among GitHub development project repositories, both private and public, for 2008 to 2015.  Some things don’t seem too surprising. Javascript is at […]

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September: Join us for the 2015 GoGeomatics Back to School Socials

19 August 2015 Jon Murphy | 2014

The 2nd Annual GoGeomatics Canada Back to School Socials are happening this September.  To kick off the 2015 school year, GoGeomatics is welcoming everyone to our Canada-Wide Back to School Socials this September. We encourage […]

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Quebec Launches new FOSS4G GIS called IGO

18 August 2015 GoGeomatics Newsmakers | api

IGO (for Open GIS Infrastructure) is a Free Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) developed by organisations in the government of Quebec in Canada. The objective is to make it open, common, modular, based on […]

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Establishment of the South African Geomatics Council

18 August 2015 GoGeomatics Newsmakers | 2013

Issued by the office of the President South Africa July 29th 2015 President Jacob Zuma has, in terms of section 40 of the Geomatics Professions Act, 2013 (Act No. 19 of 2013), determined 01 August […]

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