The contribution of geospatial data and technology to the Canadian GDP through productivity improvement is estimated to be $20.7 billion or 1.1% of the Canadian GDP in 2013. Many sectors have benefited from the application […]
Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Paris on Saturday approved a global agreement on climate change. They agreed to Hold the increase in the global average temperature to well […]
The Australian government has released a Public Data Policy Statement that commits Australia to an open data policy. (Thanks to Zac Spitzer @zackster for pointing me to this.) All non-sensitive public data will be discoverable […]
At the COP 21 meeting in Paris Canada’s Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna said that her government wants the Paris agreement to restrict planetary warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. She also said that […]
Red Hat has joined the LocationTech open source geospatial initiative. Red Hat joins Google, IBM, Oracle, and Boundless as a strategic member. Other relatively new members are SensorUp and Planet Labs, who join Azavea, MapGears, […]
In general the operation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for commercial purposes is illegal in the U.S. although this is changing. In Canada regulation of UAVs is different. You can fly a UAV that weighs […]
I just attended a fascinating presentation with the unprepossessing title of “CCRS/NRC/McGill Scientists – TOPICS OF PEATLANDS AND THE MER BLEUE BOG.” This was about a new project called MBASSS initiated by scientists from the Canada […]
Urbanization is a worldwide phenomenon. According to the World Bank, 54 percent of the world’s population lives in urban areas today. By 2045, the number of people living in cities will increase by 1.5 times […]