Bert V. de Bruijn

Entrepreneur, founder and CEO of 3Source Inc., an Ottawa-based company and creator of mapbook.io, a crowdsourcing platform for geovisualizing historical research.

Articles by Bert V. de Bruijn

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Traces of the Past: 1917 Vimy Ridge Map Project Video Presentation GoGeomatics in Ottawa

Bert de Bruijn is an Ottawa IT security consultant and founder of the WikiWar Project. Bert is passionate about Crowdsourcing…

GIS: Adventures in Historical Mapping

This article focuses on the process of creating a very out-of-date map in GIS. Lots has gone on since I…

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Gettysburg: What Could Lee See?

In an age devoid of modern communications methods and digital maps, military generals often made tactical decisions based on what…

Debunking Dust Bowl Dogma

Required reading in numerous U.S. history survey courses, it is the consummate tale of human folly: the Dust Bowl. The…

Out of Place — An Introduction

I know things that others don’t, I feel things that others can’t And yet its not part of this time…