The Atlas of Canada is an interesting site supported by Natural Resources Canada that contains a number of maps of Canada including a map of the protected ecological areas of Canada. Other maps include typical […]
The government of Canada has released a quarterly update on stimulus spending. The government says that that 80 per cent of the spending has been allocated, and that this is occuring at a faster rate […]
The economic downturn, which started with a credit crisis in the world’s largest economy, has spread worldwide and created the largest economic crisis since the Great Depression. Governments around the world are undertaking massive stimulus […]
GITA has announced its 2009 Speaker Award winners for the 2009 Geospatial Infrastructure Solutions Conference in Tampa, Fla. The award recognizes the top five percent of session speakers, each of whom were rated by session […]
Continuing Education Units (CEU) are nationally recognized education credits that record your accomplishments in the realm of continuing education. GITA has a CEU program that allows you to accumulate CEUs by participating in GITA’s Professional […]
I blogged in May about the advantages of using my Nikon P6000 with a built-in GPS in Venice and at the Ottawa tulip festival. Last night I went to the Larimer Square Street-painting Festival here […]
I blogged a while back about the US data.gov which is designed to improve access to federal data and encourage the use of this data outside of government. It is part of the Obama administration’s effort […]
World Environment Day (WED), which was established by the UN General Assembly in 1972, occurs annually on June 5. The objective is to empower people to effect sustainable development. This year’s theme is climate change and […]