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 […]
On February 4th, PCI Geomatics held their Annual User Group Meeting in Ottawa, Ontario. There was a high turnout, with about 60 people attending, from all different backgrounds. The event appealed to GIS users of […]
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 beginning of 2016 was accompanied with a sonorous press release from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) entitled: “OGC® seeks public comment on a candidate standard that may replace legacy coordinate systems” [1]. In other […]
We typically think of a GIS as features on a map with a maximum of three dimensions: Longitude Latitude Height However, there is another dimension that we can add to features, and that is time. […]
With popular holiday gift comes great responsibility OTTAWA, Dec. 11, 2015 /CNW/ – Drones, also known as unmanned air vehicles, are sure to be a popular gift this holiday season. With ownership comes great responsibility, […]
For Immediate Release December 14, 2015 Contact: Les Dorr or Alison Duquette Phone: (202) 267-3883 Registration Begins on December 21, 2015, First 30 Days are Free WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation […]
The tiling of large maps is an old practice. Large paper maps have always been divided into a series of map sheets at various scales. With the increasing popularity of web mapping applications and […]