At the COP 21 meeting in Paris Canada’s Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna said that her government wants the Paris agreement to restrict planetary warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. She also said that […]
Red Hat has joined the LocationTech open source geospatial initiative. Red Hat joins Google, IBM, Oracle, and Boundless as a strategic member. Other relatively new members are SensorUp and Planet Labs, who join Azavea, MapGears, […]
New results from Optech Titan field tests at AGU Fall Meeting December 8, 2015 — Teledyne Optech is pleased to announce our participation at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in San […]
A Federal Aviation Administration task force has recommended requiring owners of all drones larger than 9 oz. (250 grams) to register with the government, a move that could affect hundreds of thousands of US drone […]
The tiling of large maps is an old practice. Large paper maps have always been divided into a series of map sheets at various scales. With the increasing popularity of web mapping applications and […]
The development of infrastructure and dense urbanization along water courses and the increasing severity of storm events has brought to focus the need for methods for evaluating the potential negative impact to communities. While many […]
Unmanned Aerial Systems Border Surveillance demo reveals the realism, power and versatility of Presagis’ M&S Suite 15 MONTREAL, CANADA–(Marketwired – Nov. 30, 2015) – Presagis™ will be demonstrating its latest modeling and simulation (M&S) software […]
Back in 2006 I (Jim) was a student at BCIT and a Vancouver resident, eager to obtain some local data for a project. I sent a hopeful email to City of Vancouver (COV) requesting the […]