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How to Lie With Maps Revisited: The Canadian Perspective

31 August 2017 Charles Hostovsky | advertising

I recently returned to Hamilton after five years of teaching at a Washington DC university, taking a paid partial-sabbatical at the end of my contract. Unfortunately the time off gave me too much opportunity to […]

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Esri Canada Interview: Dr Brent Hall Discusses Going Back to School this Sept with GoGeomatics

28 August 2017 Jon Murphy | 2017

Esri Canada is an active supporter of GoGeomatics Canada and our grass roots efforts to bring the sector together.  Esri is sponsoring 12 Back to School Socials this September and inviting you to attend. These […]

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4th Annual 2017 GoGeomatics Back to School Social: Dates, Venues & Sponsors Announced

17 August 2017 Jon Murphy | 2017 GoGeomatics Back to School Socials

Join the Canadian geospatial community as we welcome new and returning students to our sector.  This year we are proud to announce that 12 groups are hosting Back to School Events.  We hope that  you, […]

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An Introduction: GIS and GPS for Precision Agriculture

15 August 2017 Murrium Zaheer | farming

Have you ever felt lost when someone started talking about precision agriculture?  When people think about a GIS intensive environment, they probably imagine a bustling office where the inhabitants are using technology (i.e. their computers) […]

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Leaks: Using GIS to Explore Canadian Tax Cheaters from the Panama Papers

10 August 2017 Tyler Collins | Calgary

The Breaking News Last year, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists announced that a year prior, one of their members (Süddeutsche Zeitung) had been sent the contents of a massive leak from the Panamanian law […]

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Fire GIS Uses Maps, Data, & Social Media–A Hot Tool for BC Residents, Travellers

8 August 2017 Dianne Gray | ArcGIS Online

Every summer in British Columbia, along with long days, sunshine, heat, and little rain comes an all-too-familiar reality: hundreds of wildfires. Some of them affect only uninhabited regions in BC, but many threaten communities, property, […]

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Montreal 2017 EO Summit: Is Earth Observation becoming a global partnership for change?

2 August 2017 Theresa Pinter | 2017

My journey to the 2017 Earth Observation (EO) Summit in Montreal began when I boarded the train and left Union Station in Toronto. During the long train ride I had the chance to think about […]

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