Collectively Built and Shared I have recently been thinking about the large number of free and open digital resources I use in my daily life. I frequently use tools like QGIS, rely on knowledge resources […]
Last month, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released the report Early Warnings for All in Focus: Health Monitoring and Forecasting, outlining their contribution towards, and the progress of, the Early Warning for All (EW4All) initiative. […]
We have spent much of the last year at GoGeomatics discussing data sovereignty and its impact on our professional and personal lives. Modelled after the idea of national sovereignty, data sovereignty dictates that ownership and […]
Natural Resources Canada has unveiled the WildFireSat e-Bulletin, a new periodic update that highlights developments in Canada’s satellite mission dedicated to monitoring wildland fires. WildFireSat is poised to become the world’s first purpose-built operational satellite […]
Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant prospect in the geospatial world — it’s here, reshaping how we collect, analyze, and act on location-based information. From accelerating disaster response to optimizing supply chains, the potential […]
The names that we give our communities and the landscapes that surround us are important to our sense of self, often representing a collective history and anchoring us within the wider world. When European colonists […]
The federal government is exploring the creation of a digital twin to manage some of Canada’s most complex and high-profile infrastructure — spanning heritage buildings in the Parliamentary Precinct to specialized Laboratories Canada facilities. Public […]
Canada’s progress on Building Information Modelling (BIM) standardization and alignment with other spatial technologies has been steadily improving through the work of organization like buildingSMART Canada. Helping to lead this change is John Hale, the […]