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].
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Newsmakers & Press Releases

GeoIgnite 2020 is a GO!

Canada’s highly successful national geospatial event, GEOIGNITE, will be held June 22nd to June 24th, 2020 at the Ottawa Conference and Event Centre.  This year’s conference will bring together experts from across Canada and the globe.  Join […]

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Technology

Your International Geospatial Briefing for December 2nd: Can Smart Cities Help You Without Compromising Privacy?; Surveying with Advanced Laser Scanning; Weather Agencies Object to 5G; Campus Work Begins for National Geospatial Intelligence Agency

Can Smart Cities Help You Without Compromising Privacy? Smart cities are built on data. Whether it is street sensors, heated sidewalks, lighting or emergency services, each aspect is developed around the data collected about the […]

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Technology

Your Canadian Geospatial Briefing for November 25th: Mapping Toronto’s Most Bizarre Intersections; Canada’s 5G Network: USA issues warning; GeoVangelist Wins the 2019 Alex Trebek Medal for Geographic Literacy; Mapping Canada’s Hidden Treasure

Mapping Toronto’s Most Bizarre Intersections For most people from Toronto, when they think of what their city is known for, many amazing things come to mind, but another is the many busy and confusing intersections. […]

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Technology

Your International Geospatial Briefing for November 18th: Satellite InSAR Data used to detect massive size of North Korean Nuclear Testing; How GIS Makes IoT Data Come Alive; LiDAR: Promise and Challenge in Autonomous Vehicles; Bill Gates uses mapping tech to curb polio

Satellite InSAR Data used to detect massive size of North Korean Nuclear Testing Following the withdrawal of North Korea from the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons treaty over 15 years ago, a suspected underground hydrogen bomb […]

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Technology

Your Canadian Geospatial Briefing for November 11th: A Concerning Data Strategy; Sidewalk Labs in Toronto; Vancouver: Top North American City for tech growth; World-First Satellite Connection to the Arctic with 100Mbps

A Concerning Ontario Data Strategy Teresa Scassa, a professor from the University of Ottawa, has written an interesting piece on her blog about the latest update on the Ontario data strategy. To create economic opportunities […]

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Technology

Your International Geospatial Briefing for November 4th: Is geospatial data the key to leaving no one behind?; OGC updates IndoorGML standard; Observing California’s Wildfires from the Space Station; Major Wood Chip Exporter Now Prefers Drones to Calculate Volumes

Is geospatial data the key to leaving no one behind? Some of our planet’s leaders may still be deliberating the existence of global warming, but for the communities experiencing this very real issue, the only […]