The Geospatial Data Act (GDA) of 2017, which was introduced earlier this year in the Senate (S.1253) and a companion bill in the House (H.R.3522), has some history. It was originally proposed in 2015 by Orrin […]
A Geomatics-based consulting competition for post-secondary students. The NGC organizing committee is looking for engaging industry presenters to speak on the following categories: Innovation and entrepreneurship in geomatics Challenges for geomatics professionals, The importance of […]
The Calgary GoGeomatics group is delighted to announce we will be hosting Andrew Pylypchuk from Planet, who will be discussing the recent accomplishment of one of their founding objectives: Mission 1 – to image the […]
In a new report from the Brookings Institution Digitalization and the American workforce the changing requirements for digital skills for job types covering 90% of the U.S. workforce has found dramatic changes in the last 15 […]
GoGeomatics Canada is a community. Right now a part of our community is hurting and under stress. Students across Ontario have been dealing with a month long strike by faculty at Ontario’s colleges and that […]
At the Fall BIMForum/BuildCon conference in Dallas two presentations about actual prefabrication experience – for data centres and for large automotive plants – both mentioned shortage of skilled labour as an important motivation for turning […]
This article is also available in English here. C’est la semaine de la sensibilisation à la géographie (#géographie)! Cette initiative est partie d’une campagne mondiale visant à sensibiliser la population à l’importance de la géographie […]
Cet article est aussi disponible en français ici. It’s GeoWeek! The third week of November is Geography Awareness Week (#GeoWeek). Since 1999, the Wednesday of GeoWeek has been formally known as “GIS Day”. It’s all […]