Transoft Solutions Inc., a global leader in transportation engineering design and analysis software, has partnered with Plexscape, developers of Plex.Earth®, one of the most popular tools for AutoCAD for the acceleration of architectural, engineering and […]
Using Maps to Visualize Gerrymandering in the age of Trump The ACLU’s “What the District?!” map allows users to trace the changing lines of democracy by tracking how local Congressional districts have been drawn, redrawn, […]
This installment of our ongoing series on GIS and education in Canada features GoGeomatics talking to Dr. Trevor Jones, the Program Coordinator for the Master of Geomatics for Environmental Management (MGEM) program and lecturer in Forest […]
Open source geospatial software provides a way develop scalable solutions that avoid licensing costs and that can be adapted for particular requirements with the help of a large developer community. At GeoAlberta 2018, Ebrahim Poorazizi […]
A spatial analysis of possible environmental factors contributing to the increase in the number of underweight babies born in Canada was presented by Charlene Nielsen at GeoAlberta 2018. Termed low birth weight at term (LBWT), […]
Traditionally when a new pipeline is put in the ground, either its location and depth is only approximately known or it has to be surveyed by a registered surveyor. Now there is another alternative. At […]
A “GDAL Coordinate System Barn Raising” has raised $144,000 to enable improvements to coordinate system libraries needed for the GDAL, PROJ, libgeotiff, PostGIS, and Spatialite open source toolchain. Support came from 25 players in the […]
Tracking climate change with LiDAR Donna Kirkwood, the chief scientist at Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), marked the 100-year anniversary of the Petawawa Research Forest with a demonstration of Contour, a 3-D laser scanner. Contour uses […]