GoGeomatics Canada

GoGeomatics Canada’s Online Magazine is your source for the latest news in the Canadian geomatics sector. We publish articles about technology, projects, events, Canadian companies, and interviews with industry leaders. To submit an article to the GoGeomatics Magazine, please email your pitch to [email protected].

Autodesk University: Migrating CAD to Enterprise GIS

3 December 2009 GoGeomatics Canada

At AU I made time to attend an excellent presentation by Lou Ball, who has been in the utility business for over 20 years, on migrating data from CAD drawing files (typically DWGs) to GIS. […]

Web 2.0, Participation, Google Maps, Quality of Asset Data in Utilities and Smart Grid

15 October 2009 GoGeomatics Canada

If you remember, Eric Raymond in the Cathedral and the Bazaar floated the "many eyeballs" theory that all bugs are shallow if you have a large enough community involved in finding solutions. I also remember […]

Between the Poles – The Geoff Zeiss Archives

End of an Era II: IBM Acquiring Sun ?

3 April 2009 GoGeomatics Canada

There are new reports that IBM is closer to acquiring Sun Microsystems. An interesting thought is that this acquisition would give IBM MySQL, by far the most popular open source RDBMS, to add to […]

Where 2.0

15 May 2008 GoGeomatics Canada

The Where 2.0 Conference , which is organized by Brady Forrest, is unique, primarily because the focus is on innovation in the geospatial sector. This year we had speakers explaining how to build a DIY […]