Emmanuel Stefanakis

Head of Department for University of Calgary Geomatics Engineering Program in Alberta, Canada.

Articles by Emmanuel Stefanakis

Introduction Housed within the Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary, the Department of Geomatics Engineering is one…

A couple of months ago the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) sought public comment [1] on the new version of GeoPackage…

Graph Databases and GIS & Technology (GIS&T) In the era of big data, graph databases are becoming very popular as…

Geospatial information science and technology (GIS&T) has rapidly evolved over the last few decades. This evolution has created a highly…

SaveTheMap Campaign: “to encourage citizens and startups to use geospatial data in everyday lives and create businesses that serve India”…

Recently, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced an extension to the OGC CF-netCDF 3.0 encoding standard that specifies how…

Geocoding is the process of converting a street address into a physical location that can be described with a pair…

The beginning of 2016 was accompanied with a sonorous press release from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) entitled: “OGC® seeks…

The tiling of large maps is an old practice. Large paper maps have always been divided into a series…

Elevation Web Services: Limitations and Prospects Elevation data is necessary for a wide range of geospatial applications such as creating…

Four hundred and fifty years ago, the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator presented the most popular map projection ever.…

In February 2005, Google Maps was launched as a desktop web mapping service. A few months later, in June 2005,…