Even today, with so much information at our finger tips, graduates and geospatial professionals struggle to understand the myriad of GIS certifications on offer. I’ve always wanted to explore GIS certifications further. Three years ago […]
What Students and Recent Graduates Can Do Relating to another article I wrote, called “Career Challenges for Students and Recent Graduates in GIS“, I drew awareness to the problem that in the fast-paced, unstable, […]
There seems to be great confusion between these two great disciplines, especially noting that some geographers and schools claim that Geomatics is a geographical science when it is not. There has been a general confusion […]
It’s two years now since Roger Tomlinson passed away. Roger’s and my career path have crossed several times over the last fifty years and what follows is my remembrance of the man and some of […]
Information Communications and Technology (ICT) is just like a human body. There is hardware (the bones and organs) as well as software (the brain etc.) and of course there are communication networks (the arteries, veins […]
In June 1967, the Centennial Survey Monument (the “Globe”) was unveiled in Fredericton at a prominent location opposite the new (at the time) Centennial Building on King Street. The globe was located in the “Centennial […]
University of New Brunswick researcher, Yun Zhang, is no stranger to Google Maps. In 2000, he participated in a Street View project led by YC Lee that resulted in Google Street View. Now he’s invented […]
The Challenges As a recent graduate (2013) of GIS training at BCIT in Burnaby in addition to an Honours Bachelor of Science degree at UBC-Okanagan in Kelowna, I find that students and recent graduates can […]